Elisa Ugarte
Biographic Data
| ID | 3082423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisa Ugarte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Ugarte |
| SIGNATURE | UGARTE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1803-9619 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Caregiver unpredictability and the development of biobehavioral regulation during early childhood
Experiences of unpredictability can create significant disruptions for children’s psychosocial development. Despite growing evidence highlighting the importance of predictable caregiving in fostering long-term healthy development, there is still limited understanding of proximal unpredictability within caregiver–child relationships. This study extended prior research on caregivers’ sensory signal unpredictability with infants, by (1) developing a…
Associations of emotion regulation and distress with altruistic and egoistic prosociality during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique context to explore prosociality during times of distress. Indicative of social proficiency and adaptive functioning, prosociality refers to dispositions to allocate one's attention and energy to the needs of others. Emotion regulation strategies, such as cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, may have affected how individuals responded to their distress during the pandemic through varying forms o…
Maternal Mental Health and Infant Parasympathetic Activity in the Context of Forced Displacement
Maternal mental health has been linked to early physiological regulation in infants, with depression, anxiety, and PTSD shaping autonomic nervous system development. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), an index of parasympathetic control, reflects infants’ ability to regulate arousal and predicts later self‐regulation. While maternal prenatal distress has been implicated in fetal autonomic programming, the extent to which these effects persist po…
Warm Parenting Throughout Adolescence Predicts Basal Parasympathetic Activity Among Mexican‐Origin Youths
Parenting that is warm and supportive has been consistently linked to better emotion regulation in children, but less is known about this association in adolescents. Adolescence is thought to be an important period for emotion regulation development given that it coincides with the emergence of mental health issues. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is a measure of parasympathetic regulation linked to emotion and behavior regulation. Despite the…
Latina mothers navigating Covid ‐19
Development, Culture, and Neurobiology of Moral Emotions in Ethnic/Racial Minority Children
This chapter summarizes developmental theories and research on the intersection of culture, biology, and moral emotions. It proposes that cultural canalizations might be evident for the neurobiology of moral emotions, such as empathy and sympathy, in distinct U.S. ethnic/racial minority groups, focusing particularly on work with U.S. Latino/a children and adolescents. Research on cultural (e.g., ethnic identity, cultural values), socialization (e…
The impact of social disadvantage on autonomic physiology of latinx adolescents
The experience of poverty embodies complex, multidimensional stressors that may adversely affect physiological and psychological domains of functioning. Compounded by racial/ethnic discrimination, the financial aspect of family poverty typically coincides with additional social and physical environmental risks such as pollution exposure, housing burden, elevated neighborhood unemployment, and lower neighborhood education levels. In this study, we…
Family Risk and Externalizing Problems in Chilean Children
Latent class analysis and multigroup mediation were used with 8,860 families in Chile to identify risk groups varying in socioeconomic status, family structure, and maternal depression, to determine whether profiles differed in children’s development of externalizing problems (EP) from 35 to 61 months, and maternal parenting that predicted EP. Four groups were identified: one no-risk profile and three risk profiles, impoverished and undereducated…
Parasympathetic activity, emotion socialization, and internalizing and externalizing problems in children
Biopsychosocial models of children's socioemotional development highlight the joint influences of physiological regulation and parenting practices. Both high and low levels of children's baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) have been associated with children's maladjustment, indicative of nonlinear associations. Negative or unsupportive parental responses to children's emotions are consistently linked with internalizing (IP) and externaliz…
Estilos comunicativos docentes y su incidencia en los modos de participación de los padres desde la mirada de madres de grupos vulnerables
The subjective experience that underlies the ways in which families underprivileged participate in school life tends to be invisiblized within the broad range of studies on parents' school involvement practices and educational equity. This article presents the results of a semantic structural analysis of 19 semistructured interviews with mothers of students living in socially underprivileged environments. The interviews were aimed at answering th…
Parasympathetic activity, emotion socialization, and internalizing and externalizing problems in children
Biopsychosocial models of children's socioemotional development highlight the joint influences of physiological regulation and parenting practices. Both high and low levels of children's baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) have been associated with children's maladjustment, indicative of nonlinear associations. Negative or unsupportive parental responses to children's emotions are consistently linked with internalizing (IP) and externaliz…
Estilos comunicativos docentes y su incidencia en los modos de participación de los padres desde la mirada de madres de grupos vulnerables
The subjective experience that underlies the ways in which families underprivileged participate in school life tends to be invisiblized within the broad range of studies on parents' school involvement practices and educational equity. This article presents the results of a semantic structural analysis of 19 semistructured interviews with mothers of students living in socially underprivileged environments. The interviews were aimed at answering th…
Family Risk and Externalizing Problems in Chilean Children
Latent class analysis and multigroup mediation were used with 8,860 families in Chile to identify risk groups varying in socioeconomic status, family structure, and maternal depression, to determine whether profiles differed in children’s development of externalizing problems (EP) from 35 to 61 months, and maternal parenting that predicted EP. Four groups were identified: one no-risk profile and three risk profiles, impoverished and undereducated…
Parasympathetic activity, emotion socialization, and internalizing and externalizing problems in children
Biopsychosocial models of children's socioemotional development highlight the joint influences of physiological regulation and parenting practices. Both high and low levels of children's baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) have been associated with children's maladjustment, indicative of nonlinear associations. Negative or unsupportive parental responses to children's emotions are consistently linked with internalizing (IP) and externaliz…
Development, Culture, and Neurobiology of Moral Emotions in Ethnic/Racial Minority Children
This chapter summarizes developmental theories and research on the intersection of culture, biology, and moral emotions. It proposes that cultural canalizations might be evident for the neurobiology of moral emotions, such as empathy and sympathy, in distinct U.S. ethnic/racial minority groups, focusing particularly on work with U.S. Latino/a children and adolescents. Research on cultural (e.g., ethnic identity, cultural values), socialization (e…
The impact of social disadvantage on autonomic physiology of latinx adolescents
The experience of poverty embodies complex, multidimensional stressors that may adversely affect physiological and psychological domains of functioning. Compounded by racial/ethnic discrimination, the financial aspect of family poverty typically coincides with additional social and physical environmental risks such as pollution exposure, housing burden, elevated neighborhood unemployment, and lower neighborhood education levels. In this study, we…
Latina mothers navigating Covid ‐19
Associations of emotion regulation and distress with altruistic and egoistic prosociality during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique context to explore prosociality during times of distress. Indicative of social proficiency and adaptive functioning, prosociality refers to dispositions to allocate one's attention and energy to the needs of others. Emotion regulation strategies, such as cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, may have affected how individuals responded to their distress during the pandemic through varying forms o…
Maternal Mental Health and Infant Parasympathetic Activity in the Context of Forced Displacement
Maternal mental health has been linked to early physiological regulation in infants, with depression, anxiety, and PTSD shaping autonomic nervous system development. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), an index of parasympathetic control, reflects infants’ ability to regulate arousal and predicts later self‐regulation. While maternal prenatal distress has been implicated in fetal autonomic programming, the extent to which these effects persist po…
Warm Parenting Throughout Adolescence Predicts Basal Parasympathetic Activity Among Mexican‐Origin Youths
Parenting that is warm and supportive has been consistently linked to better emotion regulation in children, but less is known about this association in adolescents. Adolescence is thought to be an important period for emotion regulation development given that it coincides with the emergence of mental health issues. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is a measure of parasympathetic regulation linked to emotion and behavior regulation. Despite the…
Caregiver unpredictability and the development of biobehavioral regulation during early childhood
Experiences of unpredictability can create significant disruptions for children’s psychosocial development. Despite growing evidence highlighting the importance of predictable caregiving in fostering long-term healthy development, there is still limited understanding of proximal unpredictability within caregiver–child relationships. This study extended prior research on caregivers’ sensory signal unpredictability with infants, by (1) developing a…
Developmental psychology (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Vagal tone (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Heart rate variability (3 works) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (3 works)