Liliana Lengua
Biographic Data
| ID | 1732015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liliana Lengua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liliana |
| FAMILY NAME | Lengua |
| SIGNATURE | LENGUA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8534-3982 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Identifying cognitive, affective, and developmental mechanisms linking threat and deprivation with adolescent psychopathology
BACKGROUND: The mechanisms linking early-life adversity with psychopathology over the life-course are complex. In this prospective study, we collectively examined cognitive, affective, and developmental mediators previously found to individually link childhood threat and deprivation experiences to adolescent psychopathology to identify the most potent mechanisms. METHODS: Data came from a community sample of 227 children (mean child age 11.5 ± 0.…
New Mothers’ Experiences of Childhood Adversity and Current Context of Economic Adversity Predict Parent and Infant RSA
This study examined the pathways from mothers’ adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) to infants’ respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), testing potential mechanisms of current contextual risk, maternal RSA, and parenting in accounting for the intergenerational transmission of adversity. Participants were 200 first‐time mothers and their infants living in low‐income contexts. Mothers reported on ACEs and contextual risk (economic insecurity, cumulativ…
Trajectories of Maternal Behavior, Infant's Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, and Emotional Recovery Following the Still Face Paradigm
The development of emotion regulation is integral to children's socioemotional adjustment. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reflects parasympathetic regulation of cardiac arousal and is thought to be an indicator of emotion regulation. However, it is unclear how RSA is associated with positive maternal behaviors and infant emotional recovery in real time over the course of a recovery period following a social stressor. Mothers and their 5‐ to 6…
Biological and social cascades of prenatal contextual risk and maternal psychological distress to early-childhood adjustment
In the peripartum, putative mechanisms in the transmission of prenatal contextual risk and maternal psychological distress include biological and social processes. In this study, path analyses were used to test unique, cascading pathways of prenatal contextual risk and pre- and postnatal maternal psychological distress through social mediators (parenting) and biological mediators (infant stress physiology) on infant temperament and toddler adjust…
Exploring the parenting experiences of Brazilian immigrants in the United States
This study aimed to understand Brazilian immigrant parents' experience and needs using an explanatory sequential design with two phases: survey and structured interviews. The results identified several challenges these parents face, the most prevalent being a lack of social support, as well as cultural values and parenting styles. These findings are important for informing counselors and other professionals working with this community how to bett…
Intrusiveness and Emotional Manipulation as Facets of Parental Psychological Control
Over 750 studies have examined parental psychological control (PPC) in different cultures. However, the conceptualization of PPC remains unclear, and operationalizations of PPC have been inconsistent. Herein we review and refine conceptual models of PPC, focusing on intrusiveness and emotional manipulation as two core facets of PPC. Guided by the Social Domain Theory, we relate intrusiveness to the boundaries of the child’s personal domain, which…
Pathways of personality and learning risk for addictive behaviors
The relation between stress and impulsivity during the first year of college
OBJECTIVE: Previous research has established that short-term and persistent stress negatively impact mental health, with one proposed consequence being increased impulsivity. The present study tests the short-term and persistent associations between stress and three facets of global self-reports of impulsivity: negative urgency, lack of premeditation, and lack of perseverance, among young adults across 6 months of their first year of college. MET…
Differential effects of parental control on preschool‐age adjustment depending on child effortful control
This study examined whether parental control differentially predicted children's effortful control and adjustment depending on children's levels of executive control and delay ability. Using longitudinal data, the study included 241 preschool‐age children and their mothers. Fifty‐seven percent of the sample was lower income and included 64% White, 10% Latino/Hispanic, 9% Black, 3% Asian‐American, 2% Native or American Indian, and 12% multiple rac…
Pre‐Covid‐19 predictors of low‐income women's Covid‐19 appraisal, coping, and changes in mental health during the pandemic
Study examined predictors and mental health consequences of appraisal (threat, support satisfaction) and coping (active, avoidant) in a sample of low‐income women during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19). Pre‐COVID‐19 contextual risk and individual resources and COVID‐19‐specific risk factors were examined as predictors of COVID‐19 appraisal and coping, which, in turn, were tested as predictors of changes in depression and anxiety across the pa…
Adolescents’ Comfort in Disclosing to Caregivers Predicts Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Directly and Indirectly Through Difficulties in Emotion Regulation
Maternal mental health mediates the effects of pandemic‐related stressors on adolescent psychopathology during Covid‐19
BACKGROUND: This study examined whether COVID-19-related maternal mental health changes contributed to changes in adolescent psychopathology. METHODS: A community sample of 226 adolescents (12 years old before COVID-19) and their mothers were asked to complete COVID-19 surveys early in the pandemic (April-May 2020, adolescents 14 years) and approximately 6 months later (November 2020-January 2021). Surveys assessed pandemic-related stressors (hea…
Playgrounds are for children
“Green space” effects on health have been amply demonstrated, but whether specific features of green space exert differential effects remains unknown. Driven by developmental psychology theory highlighting the importance of play for young children, we investigated the association between parks with playgrounds, as a subtype of “green space”, and young child mental health. After adjusting for individual race, sex, income, and cumulative risk as we…
Specific emotion and momentary emotion regulation in adolescence and early adulthood
Emotion regulation (ER) is an important factor in resilience and overall well-being throughout development, and youth report increased variation in emotion and capacity for regulation across adolescence and early adulthood. Specific emotions may be associated with the use of different ER strategies, but much evidence exclusively collapses across negative and positive affect or may not reflect the daily experience of emotion and emotion regulation…
Material hardship level and unpredictability in relation to U.S. households’ family interactions and emotional well-being
Corporal Punishment and Elevated Neural Response to Threat in Children
Spanking remains common around the world, despite evidence linking corporal punishment to detrimental child outcomes. This study tested whether children (Mage = 11.60) who were spanked (N = 40) exhibited altered neural function in response to stimuli that suggest the presence of an environmental threat compared to children who were not spanked (N = 107). Children who were spanked exhibited greater activation in multiple regions of the medial and …
Evaluation of the Implementation of a Well-being Promotion Program for College Students
Stress that undergraduate students experience is a growing public health concern, and there is increasing attention to programs that promote protective factors and skills to support resilience and well-being. Be REAL (REsilient Attitudes and Living) is a program that has been shown to increase students' use of effective coping strategies, mindfulness, and sense of well-being. This study examined whether the program would be effective when deliver…
Concurrent and prospective effects of income, adversity, and parenting behaviors on middle‐childhood effortful control and adjustment
This study examined whether effortful control (executive control [EC], delay ability [DA]) accounted for the effects of early‐childhood contextual factors (income, cumulative risk, parenting) on middle‐childhood adjustment (social competence, internalizing and externalizing problems), or whether contextual factors account for observed associations between effortful control and adjustment. A sample of children and parents ( N = 306) were assessed …
A state model of negative urgency
Adverse childhood experiences to adult adversity trends among parents
Temperament, mothers' reactions to children's emotional experiences, and emotion understanding predicting adjustment in preschool children
It is expected that both children and their parents contribute to children's development of emotion knowledge and adjustment. Bidirectional relations between child temperament (fear, frustration, executive control) and mothers' reactions to children's emotional experiences were examined to explore how these variables predict children's emotion understanding, social competence, and problem behaviors. Preschool‐aged children (N = 306) and their mot…
Variable- and person-centered approaches to examining temperament vulnerability and resilience to the effects of contextual risk
Cognitive Appraisals of Alcohol Use in Early Adolescence
Early adolescence is a dynamic period for the development of alcohol appraisals (expected outcomes of drinking and subjective evaluations of expected outcomes), yet the literature provides a limited understanding of psychosocial factors that shape these appraisals during this period. This study took a comprehensive view of alcohol appraisals and considered positive and negative alcohol outcome expectancies, as well as subjective evaluations of ex…
Sexually Explicit Online Media and Sexual Risk Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States
Parenting Mediates the Effects of Income and Cumulative Risk on the Development of Effortful Control
This study tested the hypothesis that the effects of income and cumulative risk on the development of effortful control during preschool would be mediated by parenting. The study utilized a community sample of 306 children (36–40 months) representing the full range of family income, with 29 percent at or near poverty and 28 percent lower income. Two dimensions of effortful control (executive control and delay ability) were assessed at four time p…
Predicting developmental outcomes at school entry using a multiple-risk model
The contributions of different risk factors in predicting children's psychological and academic outcomes at the end of 1st grade were examined. Using a regression model, levels of ecobehavioral risk were assessed in the following order: specific demographics, broad demographics, family psychosocial status, mother's depressive symptoms, and neighborhood quality. Participants were 337 families from 4 American communities. Predictor variables were a…
Growth in temperament and parenting as predictors of adjustment during children's transition to adolescence
The author examined relations among demographic risk (income, maternal education, single-parent status), growth in temperament (fear, irritability, effortful control), and parenting (rejection, inconsistent discipline) across 3 years and the prediction of children's adjustment problems in a community sample (N=190; ages 8-12 years at Time 1). Family income was related to higher initial levels of fear, irritability, rejection, and inconsistency an…
Gender, Gender Roles, and Personality
The relations of temperament reactivity and effortful control to children’s adjustment problems in China and the United States
The relations of parents' and teachers' reports of temperament anger-irritability, positive emotionality, and effortful control (attention focusing and inhibitory control) to children's externalizing and internalizing problems were examined in Chinese (N = 382) and U.S. (N = 322) samples of school-age children. Results suggested that in both cultures, low effortful control and high anger-irritability were associated with high externalizing proble…
Parenting Mediates the Effects of Income and Cumulative Risk on the Development of Effortful Control
This study tested the hypothesis that the effects of income and cumulative risk on the development of effortful control during preschool would be mediated by parenting. The study utilized a community sample of 306 children (36–40 months) representing the full range of family income, with 29 percent at or near poverty and 28 percent lower income. Two dimensions of effortful control (executive control and delay ability) were assessed at four time p…
Anxiousness, Frustration, and Effortful Control as Moderators of the Relation between Parenting and Adjustment in Middle‐childhood
Interactions among multiple dimensions of child temperament and parenting were tested as predictors of change in child adjustment problems using a community sample (N = 188) of children (8–12 years). Significant interactions suggested that the effect of parenting on changes in problems were dependent upon temperament and, in some cases, child sex. Effortful control mitigated the potential negative impact of inconsistent discipline and physical pu…
Sexually Explicit Online Media and Sexual Risk Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States
Material hardship level and unpredictability in relation to U.S. households’ family interactions and emotional well-being
Adverse childhood experiences to adult adversity trends among parents
The Interaction between Negative Emotionality and Effortful Control in Early Social‐emotional Development
Interactions between reactive and regulatory dimensions of temperament may be particularly relevant to children's adjustment but are examined infrequently. This study investigated these interactions by examining effortful control as a moderator of the relations of fear and frustration reactivity to children's social competence, internalizing, and externalizing problems. Participants included 306 three-year-old children and their mothers. Children…
A state model of negative urgency
Effects of Timing of Adversity on Adolescent and Young Adult Adjustment
Effects of Timing of Adversity on Adolescent and Young Adult Adjustment Abstract Exposure to adversity during childhood and adolescence predicts adjustment across development. Further, adolescent adjustment problems persist into young adulthood. This study examined relations of contextual adversity with concurrent adolescent adjustment and prospective mental health and health outcomes in young adulthood. A longitudinal sample (N = 808) was follow…
Revised reinforcement sensitivity theory and laboratory assessment of BIS and BAS in children
Biological and social cascades of prenatal contextual risk and maternal psychological distress to early-childhood adjustment
In the peripartum, putative mechanisms in the transmission of prenatal contextual risk and maternal psychological distress include biological and social processes. In this study, path analyses were used to test unique, cascading pathways of prenatal contextual risk and pre- and postnatal maternal psychological distress through social mediators (parenting) and biological mediators (infant stress physiology) on infant temperament and toddler adjust…
Concurrent and prospective effects of income, adversity, and parenting behaviors on middle‐childhood effortful control and adjustment
This study examined whether effortful control (executive control [EC], delay ability [DA]) accounted for the effects of early‐childhood contextual factors (income, cumulative risk, parenting) on middle‐childhood adjustment (social competence, internalizing and externalizing problems), or whether contextual factors account for observed associations between effortful control and adjustment. A sample of children and parents ( N = 306) were assessed …
Temperament, mothers' reactions to children's emotional experiences, and emotion understanding predicting adjustment in preschool children
It is expected that both children and their parents contribute to children's development of emotion knowledge and adjustment. Bidirectional relations between child temperament (fear, frustration, executive control) and mothers' reactions to children's emotional experiences were examined to explore how these variables predict children's emotion understanding, social competence, and problem behaviors. Preschool‐aged children (N = 306) and their mot…
Variable- and person-centered approaches to examining temperament vulnerability and resilience to the effects of contextual risk
Cognitive Appraisals of Alcohol Use in Early Adolescence
Early adolescence is a dynamic period for the development of alcohol appraisals (expected outcomes of drinking and subjective evaluations of expected outcomes), yet the literature provides a limited understanding of psychosocial factors that shape these appraisals during this period. This study took a comprehensive view of alcohol appraisals and considered positive and negative alcohol outcome expectancies, as well as subjective evaluations of ex…
Trajectories of Reinforcement Sensitivity During Adolescence and Risk for Substance Use
Developmental neuroscience models suggest that changes in responsiveness to incentives contribute to increases in adolescent risk behavior, including substance use. Trajectories of sensitivity to reward (SR) and sensitivity to punishment (SP) were examined and tested as predictors of escalation of early substance use in a community sample of adolescents (N=765, mean baseline age 11.8 years, 54% female). SR and SP were assessed using a laboratory …
Understanding Children's Divorce Adjustment from an Ecological Perspective
Using an ecological perspective, the comprehensive effect of divorce variables on children's post-divorce adjustment was investigated. The microsystem, exosystem and overall composite scores accounted for significant proportions of variance in children's self-reported maladjustment and self-esteem, but not in parents' reports of children's maladjustment. The implications for preventive interventions are discussed
Predicting developmental outcomes at school entry using a multiple-risk model
The contributions of different risk factors in predicting children's psychological and academic outcomes at the end of 1st grade were examined. Using a regression model, levels of ecobehavioral risk were assessed in the following order: specific demographics, broad demographics, family psychosocial status, mother's depressive symptoms, and neighborhood quality. Participants were 337 families from 4 American communities. Predictor variables were a…
Parent Involvement in School Conceptualizing Multiple Dimensions and Their Relations with Family and Demographic Risk Factors
Parenting Practices and Child Disruptive Behavior Problems in Early Elementary School
Examined the hypothesis that distinct parenting practices may be associated with type and profile of a child's disruptive behavior problems (e.g., oppositional, aggressive, hyperactive). Parents of 631 behaviorally disruptive children described the extent to which they experienced warm and involved interactions with their children and the extent to which their discipline strategies were inconsistent and punitive and involved spanking and physical…
Gender, Gender Roles, and Personality
The Contribution of Emotionality and Self-Regulation to the Understanding of Children’s Response to Multiple Risk
This study investigated the additive and interactive effects of multiple risk, emotionality, and self-regulation in predicting children’s adjustment problems and positive adjustment using a community sample (N= 101) of children in third through fifth grades. Multiple measures of emotionality and self-regulation were used, including observational measures and mother and child report on questionnaires. Results indicated that questionnaire measures …
Bidirectional associations between temperament and parenting and the prediction of adjustment problems in middle childhood
Growth in temperament and parenting as predictors of adjustment during children's transition to adolescence
The author examined relations among demographic risk (income, maternal education, single-parent status), growth in temperament (fear, irritability, effortful control), and parenting (rejection, inconsistent discipline) across 3 years and the prediction of children's adjustment problems in a community sample (N=190; ages 8-12 years at Time 1). Family income was related to higher initial levels of fear, irritability, rejection, and inconsistency an…
Contextual risk and parenting as predictors of effortful control and social competence in preschool children
Anxiousness, Frustration, and Effortful Control as Moderators of the Relation between Parenting and Adjustment in Middle‐childhood
Interactions among multiple dimensions of child temperament and parenting were tested as predictors of change in child adjustment problems using a community sample (N = 188) of children (8–12 years). Significant interactions suggested that the effect of parenting on changes in problems were dependent upon temperament and, in some cases, child sex. Effortful control mitigated the potential negative impact of inconsistent discipline and physical pu…
The relations of temperament reactivity and effortful control to children’s adjustment problems in China and the United States
The relations of parents' and teachers' reports of temperament anger-irritability, positive emotionality, and effortful control (attention focusing and inhibitory control) to children's externalizing and internalizing problems were examined in Chinese (N = 382) and U.S. (N = 322) samples of school-age children. Results suggested that in both cultures, low effortful control and high anger-irritability were associated with high externalizing proble…
Nature and Nurturing
Revised reinforcement sensitivity theory and laboratory assessment of BIS and BAS in children
Understanding the Relation of Low Income to HPA-Axis Functioning in Preschool Children
Trajectories of Reinforcement Sensitivity During Adolescence and Risk for Substance Use
Developmental neuroscience models suggest that changes in responsiveness to incentives contribute to increases in adolescent risk behavior, including substance use. Trajectories of sensitivity to reward (SR) and sensitivity to punishment (SP) were examined and tested as predictors of escalation of early substance use in a community sample of adolescents (N=765, mean baseline age 11.8 years, 54% female). SR and SP were assessed using a laboratory …
Effects of Timing of Adversity on Adolescent and Young Adult Adjustment
Effects of Timing of Adversity on Adolescent and Young Adult Adjustment Abstract Exposure to adversity during childhood and adolescence predicts adjustment across development. Further, adolescent adjustment problems persist into young adulthood. This study examined relations of contextual adversity with concurrent adolescent adjustment and prospective mental health and health outcomes in young adulthood. A longitudinal sample (N = 808) was follow…
Parenting Mediates the Effects of Income and Cumulative Risk on the Development of Effortful Control
This study tested the hypothesis that the effects of income and cumulative risk on the development of effortful control during preschool would be mediated by parenting. The study utilized a community sample of 306 children (36–40 months) representing the full range of family income, with 29 percent at or near poverty and 28 percent lower income. Two dimensions of effortful control (executive control and delay ability) were assessed at four time p…
The Interaction between Negative Emotionality and Effortful Control in Early Social‐emotional Development
Interactions between reactive and regulatory dimensions of temperament may be particularly relevant to children's adjustment but are examined infrequently. This study investigated these interactions by examining effortful control as a moderator of the relations of fear and frustration reactivity to children's social competence, internalizing, and externalizing problems. Participants included 306 three-year-old children and their mothers. Children…
Income and the development of effortful control as predictors of teacher reports of preschool adjustment
Sexually Explicit Online Media and Sexual Risk Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States
Cognitive Appraisals of Alcohol Use in Early Adolescence
Early adolescence is a dynamic period for the development of alcohol appraisals (expected outcomes of drinking and subjective evaluations of expected outcomes), yet the literature provides a limited understanding of psychosocial factors that shape these appraisals during this period. This study took a comprehensive view of alcohol appraisals and considered positive and negative alcohol outcome expectancies, as well as subjective evaluations of ex…
Variable- and person-centered approaches to examining temperament vulnerability and resilience to the effects of contextual risk
Temperament, mothers' reactions to children's emotional experiences, and emotion understanding predicting adjustment in preschool children
It is expected that both children and their parents contribute to children's development of emotion knowledge and adjustment. Bidirectional relations between child temperament (fear, frustration, executive control) and mothers' reactions to children's emotional experiences were examined to explore how these variables predict children's emotion understanding, social competence, and problem behaviors. Preschool‐aged children (N = 306) and their mot…
Adverse childhood experiences to adult adversity trends among parents
A state model of negative urgency
Psychology (42 works) · Developmental psychology (37 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (31 works) · Social Psychology (24 works) · Clinical Psychology (20 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (14 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Psychiatry (12 works)