Michelle L Hostetler

Biographic Data

ID4227467
NAMEMichelle L Hostetler
GIVEN NAMESMichelle L
FAMILY NAMEHostetler
SIGNATUREHOSTETLER M L
AFFILIATIONSPennsylvania State University
ORCID0000-0001-5697-6203
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Enhancing home visits to promote parents’ sensitive scaffolding among families living in poverty

    Open AccessYe Rang Park, Christina N Kim et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2026

    This study examined how different groups of families responded to participation in the Recipe 4 Success preventive intervention and what happened to families after the intervention ended. Recipe 4 Success was designed to promote parents’ sensitive scaffolding of toddlers’ self-regulation among families living in poverty. It was embedded within 12 weekly Early Head Start home visits and tested against usual practice home visits in a randomized con…

  • What predicts improvements from home visits

    Open AccessSarah M Braaten, Robert L Nix et al.ARTICLEFamily Relations2026

    Objective This study examined how implementation fidelity to Recipe 4 Success, a preventive intervention embedded within home visits, was related to family enjoyment of those home visits and how both implementation fidelity and enjoyment were related to improvements in parents' sensitive scaffolding and toddlers' self‐regulation. Background Implementation fidelity to evidence‐based interventions is necessary for achieving intended benefits. Howev…

  • A preventive intervention promoting toddlers' self‐regulation improves parental resilience in the future

    Open AccessYe Rang Park, Robert L Nix et al.ARTICLEFamily Relations2025

  • What makes home visits effective? An examination of therapeutic mechanisms in the Recipe 4 Success preventive intervention

    Open AccessSarah M Braaten, Robert L Nix et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2025References: 2

  • Promoting toddlers' self-regulation and healthy eating habits among families living in poverty

    Open AccessRobert L Nix, Sam Gill et al.ARTICLEChild Development2024

    The Recipe 4 Success preventive intervention targeted multiple factors critical to the health and well-being of toddlers living in poverty. This randomized controlled trial, which was embedded within Early Head Start home visits for 12 weeks, included 242 racially and ethnically diverse families (51% girls; toddler mean age = 2.58 years; data collected 2016–2019). Compared to parents in usual practice home visits, parents in Recipe 4 Success disp…

  • Parents' Family Coping Strategies during the Pandemic

    Open AccessLindsey R Gedaly, Joseph A Cifelli et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2024Cited by: 2References: 32

    This study aimed to understand the strategies families used to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, and their effects on family, parent, child, and couple functioning and well-being. In April and May 2020, and again one month later, 277 parents from 174 families who previously participated in a trial of a family preventive intervention were invited to participate in an online survey regarding the pandemic. Parents completed measures regarding family …

  • Building long‐term family resilience through universal prevention

    Open AccessMark E Feinberg, Lindsey R Gedaly et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2022

    As the COVID‐19 pandemic has been highly stressful for parents and children, it is clear that strategies that promote long‐term family resilience are needed to protect families in future crises. One such strategy, the Family Foundations program, is focused on promoting supportive coparenting at the transition to parenthood. In a randomized trial, we tested the long‐term intervention effects of Family Foundations on parent, child, and family well‐…

  • Impact of the Covid‐19 Pandemic on Parent, Child, and Family Functioning

    Open AccessMark E Feinberg, Jacqueline Mogle et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2022

    To quantify the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic and public health interventions on parent and child mental health and family relationships, we examined change in individual and family functioning in a sample of parents enrolled in a prevention trial; we examined change before the pandemic (2017–2019) when children were an average of 7 years old to the first months after the imposition of widespread public health interventions in the United States…

  • What kind of parenting is associated with early self-control among toddlers living in poverty? The importance of learning support

    Open AccessYe Rang Park, Robert L Nix et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2022Cited by: 1References: 12

    The present study examined what kind of parenting best supports toddlers' self-control in the context of poverty. Parents and toddlers (52% female; M age = 2.60 years) in 117 families (35% White, 25% Black, 22% Latinx, 15% Multiracial, and 3% Asian; M family income = $1,845/month) engaged in structured interaction tasks, and toddlers completed a snack delay task concurrently and after 6 months. Latent profile analysis based on eight observed pare…

  • Preventive Effects on Birth Outcomes

    Open AccessMark E Feinberg, Damon E Jones et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2015