Leslie Atkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3774076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Atkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Atkinson |
| SIGNATURE | ATKINSON L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A longitudinal study examining the associations between prenatal and postnatal maternal distress and toddler socioemotional developmental during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Elevated psychological distress, experienced by pregnant women and parents, has been well‐documented during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Most research focuses on the first 6‐months postpartum, with single or limited repeated measures of perinatal distress. The present longitudinal study examined how perinatal distress, experienced over nearly 2 years of the COVID‐19 pandemic, impacted toddler socioemotional development. A sample of 304 participants par…
Social support buffers the impact of pregnancy stress on perceptions of parent–infant closeness during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Pregnant individuals and parents have experienced elevated mental health problems and stress during COVID‐19. Stress during pregnancy can be harmful to the fetus and detrimental to the parent–child relationship. However, social support is known to act as a protective factor, buffering against the adverse effects of stress. The present study examined whether (1) prenatal stress during COVID‐19 was associated with parent–infant closeness at 6 month…
Assessing parental emotion regulation in the context of parenting
Effects of household chaos and parental responsiveness on child executive functions
These findings indicate that parental responsiveness may be compromised by household chaos, with implications for the executive functions of school-aged children. Preventative strategies are needed to improve the stability in the home and strengthen parenting practices
Fetal growth interacts with multilocus genetic score reflecting dopamine signaling capacity to predict spontaneous sugar intake in children
An Attachment-Based Model of the Relationship Between Childhood Adversity and Somatization in Children and Adults
OBJECTIVE: An attachment model was used to understand how maternal sensitivity and adverse childhood experiences are related to somatization. METHODS: We examined maternal sensitivity at 6 and 18 months and somatization at 5 years in 292 children in a longitudinal cohort study. We next examined attachment insecurity and somatization (health anxiety, physical symptoms) in four adult cohorts: healthy primary care patients (AC1, n = 67), ulcerative …
Attentional avoidance of emotional stimuli in postpartum women with childhood history of maltreatment and difficulties with emotion regulation
Child abuse and neglect can lead to difficulties regulating responses to threatening and emotional situations. Exposure to childhood maltreatment has been linked to conflicting findings of both attention biases toward and away from threat-related information. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether emotion regulation moderated the association between history of childhood maltreatment and attention bias in a sample of postpartum wo…
Maternal Self-Reported Depressive Symptoms and Maternal Cortisol Levels Interact to Predict Infant Cortisol Levels
Three basic findings have emerged from research on maternal depressive symptoms and offspring hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal functioning: (a) Mothers' depressive symptoms are positively associated with their offsprings' cortisol stress response, (b) numerous individual and interpersonal maternal characteristics moderate this association, and (c) maternal and infant cortisol levels are highly correlated. In combination, these findings have suggest…
Representational and questionnaire measures of attachment
Intellectual Functioning, Assessment of
Low maternal sensitivity at 6 months of age predicts higher BMI in 48 month old girls but not boys
Attachment and internalizing behavior in early childhood
Empirical research supporting the contention that insecure attachment is related to internalizing behaviors has been inconsistent. Across 60 studies including 5,236 families, we found a significant, small to medium effect size linking insecure attachment and internalizing behavior (observed d = .37, 95% CI [0.27, 0.46]; adjusted d = .19, 95% CI [0.09, 0.29]). Several moderator variables were associated with differences in effect size, including c…
A Meta-Analysis of Time between Maternal Sensitivity and Attachment Assessments
This meta-analysis of maternal sensitivity and infant/toddler attachment security includes 41 studies with 2243 dyads. Its purpose is to explore the impact of time between assessments of maternal sensitivity and attachment security on the strength of association between these two constructs. We also examined the interrelationships between this moderator variable and other moderators identified in the literature, such as age and risk status of the…
Cognitive coping, affective distress, and maternal sensitivity
This study investigated relations among maternal cognitive coping style (approach-avoidance), affective state, and sensitivity. Fifty-six mothers and their children with Down syndrome were followed for 2 years. Cognitive coping and affective distress inventories were administered and sensitivity was rated on the basis of mother-child observations. Results indicated that approach and avoidance have been widely studied under different designations …
An Augmented Basic Program for Exploring Subtest Combination Short Forms
Abbreviated scales often involve administering a subset of tests from the full scale, and then using the obtained score to estimate the score which would have been obtained if the entire scale had been administered. Tellegen and Briggs (1967) provided formulae for determining and reliabilities, validities, and standard deviations of this type of short form. Atkinson and Yoshida (1989) described a BASIC program for making the requisite reliability…
A Basic Program for Determining Reliability and Validity of Subtest Combination Short Forms
With increasing time pressure psychologists must often rely on results gleaned from partially administered tests. The most common type of short form involves administering a subset of scales, and the resulting score is then used to estimate the score which would have been derived if the entire test had been administered. Tellegen and Briggs (1967) have provided formulae for determining the reliability and validity of such short forms. This paper …
Representational and questionnaire measures of attachment
Attachment and internalizing behavior in early childhood
Empirical research supporting the contention that insecure attachment is related to internalizing behaviors has been inconsistent. Across 60 studies including 5,236 families, we found a significant, small to medium effect size linking insecure attachment and internalizing behavior (observed d = .37, 95% CI [0.27, 0.46]; adjusted d = .19, 95% CI [0.09, 0.29]). Several moderator variables were associated with differences in effect size, including c…
A Meta-Analysis of Time between Maternal Sensitivity and Attachment Assessments
This meta-analysis of maternal sensitivity and infant/toddler attachment security includes 41 studies with 2243 dyads. Its purpose is to explore the impact of time between assessments of maternal sensitivity and attachment security on the strength of association between these two constructs. We also examined the interrelationships between this moderator variable and other moderators identified in the literature, such as age and risk status of the…
Cognitive coping, affective distress, and maternal sensitivity
This study investigated relations among maternal cognitive coping style (approach-avoidance), affective state, and sensitivity. Fifty-six mothers and their children with Down syndrome were followed for 2 years. Cognitive coping and affective distress inventories were administered and sensitivity was rated on the basis of mother-child observations. Results indicated that approach and avoidance have been widely studied under different designations …
Fetal growth interacts with multilocus genetic score reflecting dopamine signaling capacity to predict spontaneous sugar intake in children
Low maternal sensitivity at 6 months of age predicts higher BMI in 48 month old girls but not boys
A Basic Program for Determining Reliability and Validity of Subtest Combination Short Forms
With increasing time pressure psychologists must often rely on results gleaned from partially administered tests. The most common type of short form involves administering a subset of scales, and the resulting score is then used to estimate the score which would have been derived if the entire test had been administered. Tellegen and Briggs (1967) have provided formulae for determining the reliability and validity of such short forms. This paper …
An Augmented Basic Program for Exploring Subtest Combination Short Forms
Abbreviated scales often involve administering a subset of tests from the full scale, and then using the obtained score to estimate the score which would have been obtained if the entire scale had been administered. Tellegen and Briggs (1967) provided formulae for determining and reliabilities, validities, and standard deviations of this type of short form. Atkinson and Yoshida (1989) described a BASIC program for making the requisite reliability…
Cognitive coping, affective distress, and maternal sensitivity
This study investigated relations among maternal cognitive coping style (approach-avoidance), affective state, and sensitivity. Fifty-six mothers and their children with Down syndrome were followed for 2 years. Cognitive coping and affective distress inventories were administered and sensitivity was rated on the basis of mother-child observations. Results indicated that approach and avoidance have been widely studied under different designations …
A Meta-Analysis of Time between Maternal Sensitivity and Attachment Assessments
This meta-analysis of maternal sensitivity and infant/toddler attachment security includes 41 studies with 2243 dyads. Its purpose is to explore the impact of time between assessments of maternal sensitivity and attachment security on the strength of association between these two constructs. We also examined the interrelationships between this moderator variable and other moderators identified in the literature, such as age and risk status of the…
Attachment and internalizing behavior in early childhood
Empirical research supporting the contention that insecure attachment is related to internalizing behaviors has been inconsistent. Across 60 studies including 5,236 families, we found a significant, small to medium effect size linking insecure attachment and internalizing behavior (observed d = .37, 95% CI [0.27, 0.46]; adjusted d = .19, 95% CI [0.09, 0.29]). Several moderator variables were associated with differences in effect size, including c…
Low maternal sensitivity at 6 months of age predicts higher BMI in 48 month old girls but not boys
Intellectual Functioning, Assessment of
Maternal Self-Reported Depressive Symptoms and Maternal Cortisol Levels Interact to Predict Infant Cortisol Levels
Three basic findings have emerged from research on maternal depressive symptoms and offspring hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal functioning: (a) Mothers' depressive symptoms are positively associated with their offsprings' cortisol stress response, (b) numerous individual and interpersonal maternal characteristics moderate this association, and (c) maternal and infant cortisol levels are highly correlated. In combination, these findings have suggest…
Representational and questionnaire measures of attachment
An Attachment-Based Model of the Relationship Between Childhood Adversity and Somatization in Children and Adults
OBJECTIVE: An attachment model was used to understand how maternal sensitivity and adverse childhood experiences are related to somatization. METHODS: We examined maternal sensitivity at 6 and 18 months and somatization at 5 years in 292 children in a longitudinal cohort study. We next examined attachment insecurity and somatization (health anxiety, physical symptoms) in four adult cohorts: healthy primary care patients (AC1, n = 67), ulcerative …
Attentional avoidance of emotional stimuli in postpartum women with childhood history of maltreatment and difficulties with emotion regulation
Child abuse and neglect can lead to difficulties regulating responses to threatening and emotional situations. Exposure to childhood maltreatment has been linked to conflicting findings of both attention biases toward and away from threat-related information. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether emotion regulation moderated the association between history of childhood maltreatment and attention bias in a sample of postpartum wo…
Fetal growth interacts with multilocus genetic score reflecting dopamine signaling capacity to predict spontaneous sugar intake in children
Effects of household chaos and parental responsiveness on child executive functions
These findings indicate that parental responsiveness may be compromised by household chaos, with implications for the executive functions of school-aged children. Preventative strategies are needed to improve the stability in the home and strengthen parenting practices
Assessing parental emotion regulation in the context of parenting
A longitudinal study examining the associations between prenatal and postnatal maternal distress and toddler socioemotional developmental during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Elevated psychological distress, experienced by pregnant women and parents, has been well‐documented during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Most research focuses on the first 6‐months postpartum, with single or limited repeated measures of perinatal distress. The present longitudinal study examined how perinatal distress, experienced over nearly 2 years of the COVID‐19 pandemic, impacted toddler socioemotional development. A sample of 304 participants par…
Social support buffers the impact of pregnancy stress on perceptions of parent–infant closeness during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Pregnant individuals and parents have experienced elevated mental health problems and stress during COVID‐19. Stress during pregnancy can be harmful to the fetus and detrimental to the parent–child relationship. However, social support is known to act as a protective factor, buffering against the adverse effects of stress. The present study examined whether (1) prenatal stress during COVID‐19 was associated with parent–infant closeness at 6 month…
Psychology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (5 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Pregnancy (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works)