Stephanie D Stepp
Biographic Data
| ID | 193151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie D Stepp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie D |
| FAMILY NAME | Stepp |
| SIGNATURE | STEPP S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2664-8206 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Within‐person longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and interpersonal problems in adolescent girls
BACKGROUND: Adolescence, particularly for girls, is a period of heightened risk for depressive symptoms and increased interpersonal stress. Although depressive symptoms and interpersonal problems are known to co-occur, prior work has predominantly examined between-person associations, leaving within-person processes unclear. This study addressed this gap by testing longitudinal within-person associations between depressive symptoms and interperso…
Is BMI a Useful Indicator of Prenatal Health Among Black American Women
Self-report response style bias and borderline personality features
Associations between trajectories of adolescent conduct problems and psychological well‐being in young women
INTRODUCTION: Despite the clinical relevance, little is known about variability in positive adult outcomes (i.e., flourishing, life satisfaction) of female adolescent conduct problems (CP), or interpersonal factors that promote these types of well-being. We hypothesized differential associations between adolescent CP trajectories and indicators of adult well-being due to level of positive relationships with caregivers during ages 12-17. METHOD: D…
Are We Thinking about the Same Disorder? A Trifactor Model Approach to Understand Parents’ and Their Adolescents’ Reports of Borderline Personality Pathology
Multiple informant assessment is the norm when evaluating borderline personality pathology (BPP) in adolescence, especially by including reports from both parents and adolescents. However, these reports tend to be discrepant, and it is unclear how to integrate. The current study used a trifactor model to isolate sources of variance in parents’ and adolescents’ reports of BPP due to their shared and unique perspectives in a sample of 652 inpatient…
Momentary borderline personality disorder symptoms in youth as a function of parental invalidation and youth‐perceived support
BACKGROUND: Parental invalidation is central to etiological models of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Previous studies relied on retrospective accounts or laboratory observations to examine these associations. There is a dearth of research assessing these constructs in daily life, and limited studies have tested the effect of parental invalidation on BPD symptoms during early adolescence, when BPD onsets. The current study took a dynamic a…
Internalizing and Externalizing Problems Among At-Risk Preschoolers: The Mediating Role of Maternal Invalidation
Determining the key childhood and adolescent risk factors for future BPD symptoms using regularized regression: Comparison to depression and conduct disorder
OBJECTIVE: Research has yielded factors considered critical to risk for borderline personality disorder (BPD). Yet, these factors overlap and are relevant to other disorders, like depression and conduct disorder (CD). Regularized regression, a machine learning approach, was developed to allow identification of the most important variables in large datasets with correlated predictors. We aimed to identify critical predictors of BPD symptoms in lat…
Capturing the dynamic nature of stress exposure in the Pittsburgh Girls Study
Substantial variability in timing and chronicity was observed within and across stress domains. Modeling specific domains and dimensions of stress exposure is likely important in testing associations between exposure and health; such specificity may lead to more effective deployment of preventive interventions based on stress exposure
Brief report: Differences in self-injurious thoughts and behaviors between sexual minority and heterosexual adolescent girls
Results indicate that depression is a less specific predictor of NSSI among sexual minority adolescents compared to their heterosexual peers and indicate a need for future research to delineate what psychosocial factors better account for NSSI risk
Identifying stable variants of callous-unemotional traits: A longitudinal study of at-risk girls
Callous-unemotional (CU) traits have proven important for designating children and adolescents showing a pattern of particularly severe, stable, and aggressive antisocial behaviors (Frick, Ray, Thornton, & Kahn, 2014). Individuals with secondary CU traits represent a subpopulation that are distinguished from those with primary CU traits by their high anxiety levels and marked histories of social/environmental adversity; however, evidence is large…
The Challenge of Parenting Girls in Neighborhoods of Different Perceived Quality
It is well-known that disadvantaged neighborhoods, as officially identified through census data, harbor higher numbers of delinquent individuals than advantaged neighborhoods. What is much less known is whether parents' perception of the neighborhood problems predicts low parental engagement with their girls and, ultimately, how this is related to girls' delinquency, including violence. This paper elucidates these issues by examining data from th…
Parental Punishment and Peer Victimization as Developmental Precursors to Physical Dating Violence Involvement Among Girls
The current study examined harsh punishment and peer victimization as developmental precursors to girls' involvement in physical dating violence (PDV), and the putative mediating effect of rejection sensitivity. The sample comprised 475 African American and European American participants of the longitudinal Pittsburgh Girls Study who were dating at age 17. About 10% of girls reported significant perpetration and/or victimization of physical aggre…
Parental Punishment and Peer Victimization as Developmental Precursors to Physical Dating Violence Involvement Among Girls
The current study examined harsh punishment and peer victimization as developmental precursors to girls' involvement in physical dating violence (PDV), and the putative mediating effect of rejection sensitivity. The sample comprised 475 African American and European American participants of the longitudinal Pittsburgh Girls Study who were dating at age 17. About 10% of girls reported significant perpetration and/or victimization of physical aggre…
The Challenge of Parenting Girls in Neighborhoods of Different Perceived Quality
It is well-known that disadvantaged neighborhoods, as officially identified through census data, harbor higher numbers of delinquent individuals than advantaged neighborhoods. What is much less known is whether parents' perception of the neighborhood problems predicts low parental engagement with their girls and, ultimately, how this is related to girls' delinquency, including violence. This paper elucidates these issues by examining data from th…
Parental Punishment and Peer Victimization as Developmental Precursors to Physical Dating Violence Involvement Among Girls
The current study examined harsh punishment and peer victimization as developmental precursors to girls' involvement in physical dating violence (PDV), and the putative mediating effect of rejection sensitivity. The sample comprised 475 African American and European American participants of the longitudinal Pittsburgh Girls Study who were dating at age 17. About 10% of girls reported significant perpetration and/or victimization of physical aggre…
Identifying stable variants of callous-unemotional traits: A longitudinal study of at-risk girls
Callous-unemotional (CU) traits have proven important for designating children and adolescents showing a pattern of particularly severe, stable, and aggressive antisocial behaviors (Frick, Ray, Thornton, & Kahn, 2014). Individuals with secondary CU traits represent a subpopulation that are distinguished from those with primary CU traits by their high anxiety levels and marked histories of social/environmental adversity; however, evidence is large…
Determining the key childhood and adolescent risk factors for future BPD symptoms using regularized regression: Comparison to depression and conduct disorder
OBJECTIVE: Research has yielded factors considered critical to risk for borderline personality disorder (BPD). Yet, these factors overlap and are relevant to other disorders, like depression and conduct disorder (CD). Regularized regression, a machine learning approach, was developed to allow identification of the most important variables in large datasets with correlated predictors. We aimed to identify critical predictors of BPD symptoms in lat…
Capturing the dynamic nature of stress exposure in the Pittsburgh Girls Study
Substantial variability in timing and chronicity was observed within and across stress domains. Modeling specific domains and dimensions of stress exposure is likely important in testing associations between exposure and health; such specificity may lead to more effective deployment of preventive interventions based on stress exposure
Brief report: Differences in self-injurious thoughts and behaviors between sexual minority and heterosexual adolescent girls
Results indicate that depression is a less specific predictor of NSSI among sexual minority adolescents compared to their heterosexual peers and indicate a need for future research to delineate what psychosocial factors better account for NSSI risk
Momentary borderline personality disorder symptoms in youth as a function of parental invalidation and youth‐perceived support
BACKGROUND: Parental invalidation is central to etiological models of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Previous studies relied on retrospective accounts or laboratory observations to examine these associations. There is a dearth of research assessing these constructs in daily life, and limited studies have tested the effect of parental invalidation on BPD symptoms during early adolescence, when BPD onsets. The current study took a dynamic a…
Internalizing and Externalizing Problems Among At-Risk Preschoolers: The Mediating Role of Maternal Invalidation
Self-report response style bias and borderline personality features
Associations between trajectories of adolescent conduct problems and psychological well‐being in young women
INTRODUCTION: Despite the clinical relevance, little is known about variability in positive adult outcomes (i.e., flourishing, life satisfaction) of female adolescent conduct problems (CP), or interpersonal factors that promote these types of well-being. We hypothesized differential associations between adolescent CP trajectories and indicators of adult well-being due to level of positive relationships with caregivers during ages 12-17. METHOD: D…
Are We Thinking about the Same Disorder? A Trifactor Model Approach to Understand Parents’ and Their Adolescents’ Reports of Borderline Personality Pathology
Multiple informant assessment is the norm when evaluating borderline personality pathology (BPP) in adolescence, especially by including reports from both parents and adolescents. However, these reports tend to be discrepant, and it is unclear how to integrate. The current study used a trifactor model to isolate sources of variance in parents’ and adolescents’ reports of BPP due to their shared and unique perspectives in a sample of 652 inpatient…
Is BMI a Useful Indicator of Prenatal Health Among Black American Women
Within‐person longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and interpersonal problems in adolescent girls
BACKGROUND: Adolescence, particularly for girls, is a period of heightened risk for depressive symptoms and increased interpersonal stress. Although depressive symptoms and interpersonal problems are known to co-occur, prior work has predominantly examined between-person associations, leaving within-person processes unclear. This study addressed this gap by testing longitudinal within-person associations between depressive symptoms and interperso…
Psychology (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Borderline personality disorder (4 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (4 works)