Keith A Crnic

Biographic Data

ID170117
NAMEKeith A Crnic
GIVEN NAMESKeith A
FAMILY NAMECrnic
SIGNATURECRNIC K A
AFFILIATIONSArizona State University
ORCID0000-0003-3231-3960
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS180
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX9

  • Immigration stress and maternal sensitivity in a Mexican immigrant sample: The role of parasympathetic activity and familism value

    Annabelle E Armah, Betty Lin et al.ARTICLECultural Diversity & Ethnic…2024

    The present study contributes to our understanding of the sequelae of immigration stress in Mexican immigrant mothers and the cultural resiliency factors that may alter its effects. In contrast to hypotheses, findings suggested that mothers who endorse more immigration stress may also exhibit higher RSA, and links may be more pronounced among those with strong familism values. Further research is needed to advance understanding of resiliency proc…

  • Intergenerational Consequences of Maternal Childhood Maltreatment on Infant Health Concerns

    Open AccessAmanda M Flagg, Betty Lin et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2023

  • Infant Temperament Profiles, Cultural Orientation, and Toddler Behavioral and Physiological Regulation in Mexican-American Families

    Open AccessBetty Lin, Kathryn Lemery‐chalfant et al.ARTICLEChild Development2021

    This study sought to (a) replicate infant temperament profiles from predominantly White samples in a sample of low-income, predominantly first-generation Mexican-American families, (b) investigate associations between infant temperament profiles and toddler behavioral and physiological regulation, and (c) explore whether mothers’ cultural orientation would moderate those associations. Mothers and infants (n = 322; 46% male) were assessed during p…

  • The integrative model of family stress underlying Spanish and English vocabulary development in Mexican American children: Unique effects of financial and sociocultural hardships

    Open AccessAnna J Yeo, Amanda M Flagg et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2021References: 11

    Early oral language development lays an essential foundation for academic and socioemotional competencies but is vulnerable to the impact of family stress. Despite robust evidence that family stress affects early oral language development in monolingual samples, little is known about whether the family stress processes affecting language acquisition are similar among dual language learners. Furthermore, although Mexican American families often fa…

  • Pathways to Maternal and Child Well-Being: Stability and Transaction across Toddlerhood

    Laura K Winstone, Sarah G Curci et al.ARTICLEParenting2020Cited by: 1References: 7

    In this minority at-risk population, there was substantial stability in and a lack of transactional relations between minor parenting stresses, parenting satisfaction, and dyadic dysregulation across toddlerhood. These factors are important determinants of maternal and child well-being, with minor parenting stress emerging as particularly powerful

  • Developmental Trajectories of Maternal Sensitivity across the First Year of Life: Relations among Emotion Competence and Dyadic Reciprocity

    Lauren van Huisstede, Laura K Winstone et al.ARTICLEParenting2019References: 11

    The findings offer a more nuanced understanding of maternal sensitivity and suggest that component aspects of maternal sensitivity uniquely contribute to child and family competencies

  • Prenatal Maternal Depressive Symptoms Predict Early Infant Health Concerns

    Open AccessShayna S Coburn, Linda J Luecken et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2018

  • Parenting Stress and Parental Efficacy

    Open AccessKeith Crnic, Keith A Crnic et al.CHAPTERParental Stress and Early Child…2017

  • Ontogeny of emotional and behavioral problems in a low-income, Mexican American sample

    Open AccessBetty Lin, Keith A Crnic et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2017Cited by: 1References: 3

    Clinically meaningful behavior problems are thought to be present beginning in the early toddler years, yet few studies have investigated correlates of behavior problems assessed before age 2 years. The current study investigated the direct and interactive contributions of early infant and caregiver characteristics thought to play an important role in the ontogeny of behavior problems. Specifically, the study examined: (a) the links between infan…

  • Economic Stress and Cortisol Among Postpartum Low-Income Mexican American Women: Buffering Influence of Family Support

    Shannon L Jewell, Linda J Luecken et al.ARTICLEBehavioral Medicine2015

    Low-income Mexican American women experience significant health disparities during the postpartum period. Contextual stressors, such as economic stress, are theorized to affect health via dysregulated cortisol output. However, cultural protective factors including strong family support may buffer the impact of stress. In a sample of 322 low-income Mexican American women (mother age 18-42; 82% Spanish-speaking; modal family income $10,000-$15,000)…

  • Father involvement in Mexican-origin families: Preliminary development of a culturally informed measure

    Danielle S Roubinov, Linda J Luecken et al.ARTICLECultural Diversity & Ethnic…2015Cited by: 1References: 6

    These preliminary results contribute to understanding of the transition to fatherhood among low-income Mexican-origin men and bring attention to the demographic, social, and cultural contexts in which varying levels of father involvement may emerge

  • The family model stress and maternal psychological symptoms: Mediated pathways from economic hardship to parenting.

    Rebecca Newland, Rebecca P Newland et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Psychology2013

    Although much of the extant research on low-income families has targeted parental depression as the predominant psychological response to economic hardship, the current study examined a range of maternal psychological symptoms that may mediate the relations between early economic pressure and later parenting behaviors. A family stress model was examined using data from 1,142 mothers living in 2 areas of high rural poverty, focusing on the infancy…

  • Determinants of Change in Maternal Sensitivity: Contributions of Context, Temperament, and Developmental Risk

    Lucia Ciciolla, Keith A Crnic et al.ARTICLEParenting2013Cited by: 4References: 11

    Early developmental risk and child gender contribute to the nature of maternal sensitivity over time, but their contributions depend on the situational demands of the interaction. This contextualized view of sensitivity provides further evidence in support of parenting as a dynamic developmental process

  • Developmental changes in anger expression and attention focus: Learning to wait

    Pamela M Cole, Patricia Z Tan et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2011Cited by: 11References: 15

    Being able to wait is an essential part of self-regulation. In the present study, the authors examined the developmental course of changes in the latency to and duration of target-waiting behaviors by following 65 boys and 55 girls from rural and semirural economically strained homes from ages 18 months to 48 months. Age-related changes in latency to and duration of children's anger expressions and attention focus (e.g., self-initiated distractio…

  • Emotion Socialization by Mothers and Fathers: Coherence among Behaviors and Associations with Parent Attitudes and Children's Social Competence

    Open AccessJason K Baker, Rachel M Fenning et al.ARTICLESocial Development2010Cited by: 19References: 9

    This study examined interrelations among different types of parental emotion socialization behaviors in 88 mothers and 76 fathers (co-residing with participating mothers) of 8-year-old children. Parents completed questionnaires assessing emotion socialization behaviors, emotion-related attitudes, and their children's social functioning. An observed parent-child emotion discourse task and a child social-problem solving interview were also performe…

  • Maternal Depression and Parenting: Implications for Children's Emergent Emotion Regulation and Behavioral Functioning

    Casey Hoffman, Keith A Crnic et al.ARTICLEParenting2006Cited by: 16References: 5

    Objective. We investigated the role of mothers' elevated depressive symptoms on scaffolding and availability to assist preschool children's regulatory development. Design. A sample of 208 3-year-olds and their mothers was drawn from an ongoing longitudinal study and followed to child age 4. Maternal scaffolding behaviors and children's emotion regulation competencies were assessed using behavioral coding schemes applied to observations of structu…

  • Cumulative parenting stress across the preschool period: Relations to maternal parenting and child behaviour at age 5

    Open AccessKeith A Crnic, Catherine Gaze et al.ARTICLEInfant and Child Development2005

    Despite increasing interest in the effects of parenting stress on children and families, many questions remain regarding the nature of parenting stress and the mechanism through which stress exerts its influence across time. In this study, cumulative parenting stress was assessed across the preschool period in a sample of 125 typically developing children and their mothers. Indices of parenting stress included both major life events stress-assess…

  • The Relation Between Mothers' Reports of Family-of-Origin Expressiveness and Their Emotion-Related Parenting

    Jason K Baker, Keith A CrnicARTICLEParenting2005Cited by: 1References: 12

    Objective. This study examines the importance of mothers' reports of their family histories of emotional expressiveness to the manner in which they socialize emotion in their children and the role of child gender as a moderator of that relation. Design. One-hundred and thirty-five mothers and their 3-year-olds participated. Mothers completed the Family Expressiveness Questionnaire to assess accounts of family-of-origin expressiveness. Current emo…

  • Pre‐school children with and without developmental delay: Behaviour problems and parenting stress over time

    Open AccessBruce L Baker, Laura Lee McIntyre et al.ARTICLEJournal of Intellectual…2003

    Background Children with intellectual disability are at heightened risk for behaviour problems and diagnosed mental disorder. Methods The present authors studied the early manifestation and continuity of problem behaviours in 205 pre‐school children with and without developmental delays. Results Behaviour problems were quite stable over the year from age 36–48 months. Children with developmental delays were rated higher on behaviour problems than…

  • Did you see that, Mom?’: Social Looking in Three‐Year‐Old Boys

    Open AccessSarah E Martin, Keith A Crnic et al.ARTICLESocial Development2003References: 3

    This study examined social looking, defined as child‐initiated looking to a caregiver's face, in a sample of three‐year‐old boys and their mothers: 59.6% of boys looked to their mothers at least once over the course of emotion‐eliciting puppet show vignettes. Social looking occurred more often during puppet show events that were child‐focused and positive in valence. Boys’ social looking was related to their concurrent affective state, with more …

  • Maternal Emotions During Mother-Toddler Interaction: Parenting in Affective Context

    Sarah E Martin, Mari Clements et al.ARTICLEParenting2002Cited by: 8References: 9

    Objective. This study explored the emotional experiences of mothers in interacting with their 2-year-old children and examined interrelations among maternal emotion, family distress, and observations of parenting sensitivity. Design. Sixty mothers and their 2-year-old children were observed interacting during both enjoyable (free play) and challenging (waiting) interaction tasks, and mothers provided self-report information about their emotional …

  • Stability and change in mothers' representations of their relationship with their toddlers

    J Lawrence Aber, J Belsky et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology1999Cited by: 12References: 4

    This study examined several issues in the developmental dynamics of parents' representations of their relationship with their toddlers. The authors studied 125 mothers and their firstborn toddler sons over a 13-month period. Mothers took the Parent Development Interview twice, when children were 15 and 28 months of age. Home observations of parent-child interactions and maternal ratings of daily hassles were collected when children were 21 and 27…

  • Attachment and bookreading patterns: A study of mothers, fathers, and their toddlers

    Open AccessAdriana G Bus, J Belsky et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly1997Cited by: 2References: 4

  • Infant emotionality, parenting, and 3-year inhibition: Exploring stability and lawful discontinuity in a male sample

    Seong-Yeon Park, J Belsky et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology1997Cited by: 16References: 9

    In this study, the authors examine temperament (12-13 months) and mothering and fathering (15, 21, 27, 33 months) antecedents of inhibition of children at age 3 years prospectively in a sample of 125 firstborn boys and retrospectively in only the most and least inhibited children. High negativity coupled with low positivity in infancy predicted high inhibition, as did parenting that was supportive (e.g., high sensitivity, low intrusiveness). Pare…

  • An Integrative Model for the Study of Developmental Competencies in Minority Children

    Cynthia García Coll, Gontran Lamberty et al.ARTICLEChild Development1996

    Gontran Lamberty, Renee Jenkins, Harriet Pipes McAdoo, Keith Crnic, Barbara Hanna Wasik, , An Integrative Model for the Study of Developmental Competencies in Minority Children, Child Development, Vol. 67, No. 5 (Oct., 1996), pp. 1891-1914