Foley
Biographic Data
| ID | 30592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Foley |
| FAMILY NAME | Foley |
| SIGNATURE | FOLEY |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8900-9885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“The normal flow of time stopped with the normal flow of life”
The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread disruptions to daily life which impacted how people used and experienced time. This study employed a mixed-method, person-centered approach to investigate people's subjective experiences of time during the first year of the pandemic. Specifically, it aimed to investigate experiences of time as multifaceted, measuring the pandemic's impact on people's perceptions of routine changes, passage of time, and quan…
Reason Cp
Cerebral palsy, a common example of childhood-onset neurodisability (COND), is a heterogeneous neurodevelopmental condition characterized by complexity and variability across individuals. Children, families, and clinicians must navigate a maze of potential interventions, a challenge compounded by inconsistent quality of systematic reviews and lack of evidence for certain sub-groups, resulting in clinical decision-making uncertainty. Existing fram…
The menopausal transition and women's workplace identity
Background The menopausal transition is a significant life stage characterised by complex biological, psychological, and social changes, often coinciding with a period of career consolidation or advancement. While research on menopause in the workplace is expanding, it focuses predominantly on symptoms and productivity. However, work is an important psychological and social space in which women construct and sustain professional identity. Emergin…
Tracking Changes in Maternal Mind‐Mindedness Across Children's Transition to Siblinghood in China
Research on mind‐mindedness is flourishing but remains limited both in geographical scope and by the scarcity of longitudinal designs. Framed within a larger study of the transition to siblinghood in China, we addressed these gaps by following 138 Chinese mothers (82% university educated) from late pregnancy for a second child (Time 1; M weeks = 32) to two months postpartum (Time 2; M interval = 3.40 months). At both time points mothers completed…
Assessing Neighborhood Characteristics and Their Association with Prenatal Maternal Stress, Depressive Symptoms, and Well-Being in Eight Culturally Diverse Cities
Despite growing evidence on the influence of neighborhood characteristics on maternal well-being, there is a critical gap in the availability of validated instruments for measuring these constructs across different cultural settings. Existing neighborhood-related scales often lack cross-cultural validation, limiting their applicability in low- and middle-income countries. Understanding the impact of neighborhood characteristics is crucial given i…
Sibling and pet relationships
Although children view pets (i.e. companion animals) as family members, child-pet relationships are rarely studied alongside other family relationships. In a socially diverse sample of 77 British families with pre-adolescent children (M age 12.14 years, SD 0.29 years), we examine how the quality of children's relationships with their pets and siblings vary in the context of adversity, and controlling for parent-child relationship quality, predict…
It might be able to produce a text, but it’s not able to produce knowledge
Parental sensitivity and family conversation
Parental verbal sensitivity is known to promote child language skills, but few studies have considered: (a) links between global (i.e., verbal, behavioral, and affective) measures of parental sensitivity and infant‐initiated conversations, an important precursor to language development; (b) whether maternal and paternal sensitivity show similar links with infant‐initiated conversation; or (c) the transactional role of infant conversation for late…
Siblings in lockdown
Supportive family relationships may mitigate the impact of the Covid19 pandemic on young children's adjustment, but existing work is limited by its focus on within‐country variation and parental influences. Addressing these gaps, and drawing on reported buffering effects of older siblings on child mental health (Lawson and Mace, 2010), the current international study examined whether child adjustment problems were, on average, elevated by the pan…
Grappling with tradition
Elective co-parenting families, meaning two (or more parents) who are not in a romantic relationship having a child together, are becoming more common amongst cisgender, heterosexual parents. The study of elective co-parenting families offers researchers a unique opportunity to decouple co-parenting relationships from romantic relationships, but little research to date has explored their experiences. This study explored two research questions: wh…
A longitudinal study of families formed through third-party assisted reproduction
The seventh phase of this longitudinal study investigated whether children born through third-party assisted reproduction experienced psychological problems, or difficulties in their relationship with their mothers, in early adulthood. The impact of disclosure of their biological origins, and quality of mother-child relationships from age 3 onward, were also examined. Sixty-five assisted reproduction families, including 22 surrogacy families, 17 …
Expectant mothers' not fathers' mind‐mindedness predicts infant, mother, and father conversational turns at 7 months
Parental mind‐mindedness (MM), defined as the propensity to view one's child as an agent with thoughts, feelings, and desires, is associated with positive child outcomes (McMahon & Bernier, 2017) and can be assessed in expectant parents by using five‐minute speech samples (Magaña et al., 1986). Individual differences in MM appear stable across the transition to parenthood (Foley et al., in press), offering an exciting intervention opportunity, as…
Mind-mindedness in new mothers and fathers
This study examined the development of caregiver mind-mindedness-defined as the propensity to see one's child as an agent with an independent mind-across the first 1,000 days of life. At four time-points (i.e., third trimester of pregnancy, 4, 14, and 24 months postpartum), 384 first-time mothers ( M age = 32.55, SD = 3.63 years) and fathers ( M age = 33.96, SD = 4.40 years) gave 5-minute speech samples about their infant that were coded for mind…
Adoptive Gay Father Families
Findings are presented from the second phase of a UK longitudinal study of 33 gay father, 35 lesbian mother, and 43 heterosexual parent families when their adopted children reached early adolescence. Participants predominantly lived in urban/suburban areas and were mostly white and well-educated. Standardized interviews, observations, and questionnaires of parental mental health, parent–child relationships, and adolescent adjustment were administ…
Family Function and Child Adjustment Difficulties in the Covid-19 Pandemic
To estimate specific proximal and distal effects of COVID-19-related restrictions on families on children's adjustment problems, we conducted a six-site international study. In total, 2516 parents from Australia, China, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America living with a young child ( M age = 5.77, SD = 1.10, range = 3 to 8 years, 47.9% female) completed an online survey between April and July 2020. The survey includ…
Two's Company, Three's a Crowd? Maternal and Paternal Talk About Their Infant Differs in Associations With Wellbeing, Couple Relationship Quality, and Caregiving Sensitivity
Problems of depression and anxiety are common in early parenthood and adversely affect parenting quality (1). Rumination is closely linked to poor wellbeing (2), suggesting that self-focus may be one mediator of the association between wellbeing and caregiving [e.g., (3)]. Framed within an international study of first-time mothers and fathers (4), the current study included 396 British mothers and fathers (in 198 heterosexual cohabiting couple re…
Great expectations? Do mothers’ and fathers’ prenatal thoughts and feelings about the infant predict parent-infant interaction quality? A meta-analytic review
Family support and gains in school readiness
BACKGROUND: Traditional measures of school readiness are labour-intensive and do not assess family support. AIMS: The current study used the newly developed Brief Early Skills and Support Index (BESSI: Hughes, Daly, Foley, White and Devine 2015) to examine 6-month longitudinal stability and change in teachers' ratings of young children's school readiness and investigate the role of family support as a predictor of school readiness. SAMPLE: = 3.98…
School readiness in children with special educational needs and disabilities
BACKGROUND: There is an urgent need to accelerate the detection of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). A recent brief questionnaire designed for teachers and nursery staff, the Brief Early Skills and Support Index (BESSI), shows promising psychometric properties (Hughes, Daly, Foley, White, & Devine, . British Journal of Educational Psychology, 85(3), 332-356.), but has yet to be evaluated as a tool for detecting children who may h…
Measuring the foundations of school readiness
BACKGROUND: Early work on school readiness focused on academic skills. Recent research highlights the value of also including both children's social and behavioural competencies and family support. AIMS: Reflecting this broader approach, this study aimed to develop a new and brief questionnaire for teachers: The Brief Early Skills and Support Index (BESSI). SAMPLE: The main sample, recruited from the north-west of England, included 1,456 children…
An Origin of the Tableau Economique
Research Article| March 01 1973 An Origin of the Tableau Economique V. Foley V. Foley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1973) 5 (1): 121–150. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-5-1-121 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation V. Foley; An Origin of the Tableau Economique. History of Political Economy 1 March 1973; 5 (1): 121–150. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0018…
An Origin of the Tableau Economique
Research Article| March 01 1973 An Origin of the Tableau Economique V. Foley V. Foley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1973) 5 (1): 121–150. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-5-1-121 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation V. Foley; An Origin of the Tableau Economique. History of Political Economy 1 March 1973; 5 (1): 121–150. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0018…
A longitudinal study of families formed through third-party assisted reproduction
The seventh phase of this longitudinal study investigated whether children born through third-party assisted reproduction experienced psychological problems, or difficulties in their relationship with their mothers, in early adulthood. The impact of disclosure of their biological origins, and quality of mother-child relationships from age 3 onward, were also examined. Sixty-five assisted reproduction families, including 22 surrogacy families, 17 …
Grappling with tradition
Elective co-parenting families, meaning two (or more parents) who are not in a romantic relationship having a child together, are becoming more common amongst cisgender, heterosexual parents. The study of elective co-parenting families offers researchers a unique opportunity to decouple co-parenting relationships from romantic relationships, but little research to date has explored their experiences. This study explored two research questions: wh…
Measuring the foundations of school readiness
BACKGROUND: Early work on school readiness focused on academic skills. Recent research highlights the value of also including both children's social and behavioural competencies and family support. AIMS: Reflecting this broader approach, this study aimed to develop a new and brief questionnaire for teachers: The Brief Early Skills and Support Index (BESSI). SAMPLE: The main sample, recruited from the north-west of England, included 1,456 children…
Mind-mindedness in new mothers and fathers
This study examined the development of caregiver mind-mindedness-defined as the propensity to see one's child as an agent with an independent mind-across the first 1,000 days of life. At four time-points (i.e., third trimester of pregnancy, 4, 14, and 24 months postpartum), 384 first-time mothers ( M age = 32.55, SD = 3.63 years) and fathers ( M age = 33.96, SD = 4.40 years) gave 5-minute speech samples about their infant that were coded for mind…
An Origin of the Tableau Economique
Research Article| March 01 1973 An Origin of the Tableau Economique V. Foley V. Foley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1973) 5 (1): 121–150. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-5-1-121 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation V. Foley; An Origin of the Tableau Economique. History of Political Economy 1 March 1973; 5 (1): 121–150. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0018…
Measuring the foundations of school readiness
BACKGROUND: Early work on school readiness focused on academic skills. Recent research highlights the value of also including both children's social and behavioural competencies and family support. AIMS: Reflecting this broader approach, this study aimed to develop a new and brief questionnaire for teachers: The Brief Early Skills and Support Index (BESSI). SAMPLE: The main sample, recruited from the north-west of England, included 1,456 children…
Great expectations? Do mothers’ and fathers’ prenatal thoughts and feelings about the infant predict parent-infant interaction quality? A meta-analytic review
Family support and gains in school readiness
BACKGROUND: Traditional measures of school readiness are labour-intensive and do not assess family support. AIMS: The current study used the newly developed Brief Early Skills and Support Index (BESSI: Hughes, Daly, Foley, White and Devine 2015) to examine 6-month longitudinal stability and change in teachers' ratings of young children's school readiness and investigate the role of family support as a predictor of school readiness. SAMPLE: = 3.98…
School readiness in children with special educational needs and disabilities
BACKGROUND: There is an urgent need to accelerate the detection of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). A recent brief questionnaire designed for teachers and nursery staff, the Brief Early Skills and Support Index (BESSI), shows promising psychometric properties (Hughes, Daly, Foley, White, & Devine, . British Journal of Educational Psychology, 85(3), 332-356.), but has yet to be evaluated as a tool for detecting children who may h…
Two's Company, Three's a Crowd? Maternal and Paternal Talk About Their Infant Differs in Associations With Wellbeing, Couple Relationship Quality, and Caregiving Sensitivity
Problems of depression and anxiety are common in early parenthood and adversely affect parenting quality (1). Rumination is closely linked to poor wellbeing (2), suggesting that self-focus may be one mediator of the association between wellbeing and caregiving [e.g., (3)]. Framed within an international study of first-time mothers and fathers (4), the current study included 396 British mothers and fathers (in 198 heterosexual cohabiting couple re…
Adoptive Gay Father Families
Findings are presented from the second phase of a UK longitudinal study of 33 gay father, 35 lesbian mother, and 43 heterosexual parent families when their adopted children reached early adolescence. Participants predominantly lived in urban/suburban areas and were mostly white and well-educated. Standardized interviews, observations, and questionnaires of parental mental health, parent–child relationships, and adolescent adjustment were administ…
Family Function and Child Adjustment Difficulties in the Covid-19 Pandemic
To estimate specific proximal and distal effects of COVID-19-related restrictions on families on children's adjustment problems, we conducted a six-site international study. In total, 2516 parents from Australia, China, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America living with a young child ( M age = 5.77, SD = 1.10, range = 3 to 8 years, 47.9% female) completed an online survey between April and July 2020. The survey includ…
Expectant mothers' not fathers' mind‐mindedness predicts infant, mother, and father conversational turns at 7 months
Parental mind‐mindedness (MM), defined as the propensity to view one's child as an agent with thoughts, feelings, and desires, is associated with positive child outcomes (McMahon & Bernier, 2017) and can be assessed in expectant parents by using five‐minute speech samples (Magaña et al., 1986). Individual differences in MM appear stable across the transition to parenthood (Foley et al., in press), offering an exciting intervention opportunity, as…
Mind-mindedness in new mothers and fathers
This study examined the development of caregiver mind-mindedness-defined as the propensity to see one's child as an agent with an independent mind-across the first 1,000 days of life. At four time-points (i.e., third trimester of pregnancy, 4, 14, and 24 months postpartum), 384 first-time mothers ( M age = 32.55, SD = 3.63 years) and fathers ( M age = 33.96, SD = 4.40 years) gave 5-minute speech samples about their infant that were coded for mind…
Siblings in lockdown
Supportive family relationships may mitigate the impact of the Covid19 pandemic on young children's adjustment, but existing work is limited by its focus on within‐country variation and parental influences. Addressing these gaps, and drawing on reported buffering effects of older siblings on child mental health (Lawson and Mace, 2010), the current international study examined whether child adjustment problems were, on average, elevated by the pan…
Grappling with tradition
Elective co-parenting families, meaning two (or more parents) who are not in a romantic relationship having a child together, are becoming more common amongst cisgender, heterosexual parents. The study of elective co-parenting families offers researchers a unique opportunity to decouple co-parenting relationships from romantic relationships, but little research to date has explored their experiences. This study explored two research questions: wh…
A longitudinal study of families formed through third-party assisted reproduction
The seventh phase of this longitudinal study investigated whether children born through third-party assisted reproduction experienced psychological problems, or difficulties in their relationship with their mothers, in early adulthood. The impact of disclosure of their biological origins, and quality of mother-child relationships from age 3 onward, were also examined. Sixty-five assisted reproduction families, including 22 surrogacy families, 17 …
Parental sensitivity and family conversation
Parental verbal sensitivity is known to promote child language skills, but few studies have considered: (a) links between global (i.e., verbal, behavioral, and affective) measures of parental sensitivity and infant‐initiated conversations, an important precursor to language development; (b) whether maternal and paternal sensitivity show similar links with infant‐initiated conversation; or (c) the transactional role of infant conversation for late…
Assessing Neighborhood Characteristics and Their Association with Prenatal Maternal Stress, Depressive Symptoms, and Well-Being in Eight Culturally Diverse Cities
Despite growing evidence on the influence of neighborhood characteristics on maternal well-being, there is a critical gap in the availability of validated instruments for measuring these constructs across different cultural settings. Existing neighborhood-related scales often lack cross-cultural validation, limiting their applicability in low- and middle-income countries. Understanding the impact of neighborhood characteristics is crucial given i…
Sibling and pet relationships
Although children view pets (i.e. companion animals) as family members, child-pet relationships are rarely studied alongside other family relationships. In a socially diverse sample of 77 British families with pre-adolescent children (M age 12.14 years, SD 0.29 years), we examine how the quality of children's relationships with their pets and siblings vary in the context of adversity, and controlling for parent-child relationship quality, predict…
It might be able to produce a text, but it’s not able to produce knowledge
“The normal flow of time stopped with the normal flow of life”
The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread disruptions to daily life which impacted how people used and experienced time. This study employed a mixed-method, person-centered approach to investigate people's subjective experiences of time during the first year of the pandemic. Specifically, it aimed to investigate experiences of time as multifaceted, measuring the pandemic's impact on people's perceptions of routine changes, passage of time, and quan…
Reason Cp
Cerebral palsy, a common example of childhood-onset neurodisability (COND), is a heterogeneous neurodevelopmental condition characterized by complexity and variability across individuals. Children, families, and clinicians must navigate a maze of potential interventions, a challenge compounded by inconsistent quality of systematic reviews and lack of evidence for certain sub-groups, resulting in clinical decision-making uncertainty. Existing fram…
The menopausal transition and women's workplace identity
Background The menopausal transition is a significant life stage characterised by complex biological, psychological, and social changes, often coinciding with a period of career consolidation or advancement. While research on menopause in the workplace is expanding, it focuses predominantly on symptoms and productivity. However, work is an important psychological and social space in which women construct and sustain professional identity. Emergin…
Tracking Changes in Maternal Mind‐Mindedness Across Children's Transition to Siblinghood in China
Research on mind‐mindedness is flourishing but remains limited both in geographical scope and by the scarcity of longitudinal designs. Framed within a larger study of the transition to siblinghood in China, we addressed these gaps by following 138 Chinese mothers (82% university educated) from late pregnancy for a second child (Time 1; M weeks = 32) to two months postpartum (Time 2; M interval = 3.40 months). At both time points mothers completed…
Developmental psychology (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (9 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Demography (4 works)