Julia Torquati
Biographic Data
| ID | 4891016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Torquati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Torquati |
| SIGNATURE | TORQUATI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9051-0711 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Saints, Superheroes, and Zombies: Early Childhood Professionals’ Well-Being and Relational Health in the Waning Days of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Early childhood education is a demanding profession. Understanding how early childhood (EC) professionals’ draw on internal assets and external resources to sustain well-being is critical, as their well-being is linked to the quality of the care and education they provide. This phenomenological study examined professionals’ strengths and assets, how they used them to manage workplace demands to sustain well-being, and how they engaged with broade…
A developmental and ecological investigation of preschool children’s environmental moral reasoning
Are You Close with Your Parents? The Mediation Effects of Parent–Child Closeness on Young Adults’ Financial Socialization Through Young Adults’ Self-reported Responsibility
Pathways to Low-Income Children’s Self-Regulation: Child Temperament and the Qualities of Teacher–Child Relationships
Research Findings: We examined low-income children’s temperament (regulatory and reactive) as a predictor of their self-regulation, and teacher-child relationship (closeness and conflict) as a moderator of associations between child temperament and selfregulation. This study involved 291 children (132 girls) (Mage = 53.88 months, SD = 6.44 months) from three EduCare programs. Parents reported on children’s temperament and teachers reported on qua…
Gray space and green space proximity associated with higher anxiety in youth with autism
I Have a Hippopotamus!”: Preparing Effective Early Childhood Environmental Educators
This article describes an early childhood teacher-preparation program that infuses environmental education and nature experiences into courses, practicum, and student-teaching experiences. Program philosophy, pedagogy, materials, and methods are described and linked to the Early Childhood Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence, the Guidelines for the Preparation and Professional Development of Environmental Educators, and sta…
Family child care in four Midwestern states: Multiple measures of quality and relations to outcomes by licensed status and subsidy program participation
Predictors of quality and child outcomes in family child care settings
Family income, parent education, and perceived constraints as predictors of observed program quality and parent rated program quality
Teacher education, motivation, compensation, workplace support, and links to quality of center-based child care and teachers’ intention to stay in the early childhood profession
The Role of Child Emotional Responsiveness and Maternal Negative Emotion Expression in Children's Coping Strategy Use
This study examined the additive and interactive effects of children's trait vicarious emotional responsiveness and maternal negative emotion expression on children's use of coping strategies. Ninety‐five children (mean age = 5.87 years) and their mothers and teachers participated in the study. The mothers reported on their own negative emotion expression and the children's empathic concern and personal distress tendencies. The mothers and teache…
Children's Perceptions of Family Relationships as Assessed in a Doll Story Completion Task: Links to Parenting, Social Competence, and Externalizing Behavior
This study was designed to examine the links between parenting, children's perceptions of family relationships, and children's social behavior. Seventy‐four children (M age=6.01 years; 39 boys; 35 girls) and their parents took part in the study. Children completed relationship‐oriented doll stories that were coded for coherence, prosocial themes, and aggressive themes. Parents completed a report of their child's social behavior, a parenting scale…
Daily Experiences of Emotions and Social Contexts of Securely and Insecurely Attached Young Adults
This study examined daily emotions and social contexts of young adults who differed in global attachment style (secure vs. insecure). Sixty-nine college students (41% male, 59% female) completed self-report measures of attachment and provided time-sampling data on moods, companionship, and activities using the experience sampling method. Secure (n = 41)andinsecure (n = 28)young adults spenta similar proportion of time with familiar intimates and …
Personal and Social Resources as Predictors of Parenting in Homeless Families
This research examined predictors of positive and negative parenting behaviors in homeless families. Personal and social resources were tested as predictors of parenting in an ethnically heterogeneous sample of 38 homeless children between the ages of 6 and 12 and their parents. Parents' social support networks included few familiar intimates. Social support did not predict positive or negative parenting. Stressors predicted negative but not posi…
Attachment as an Organizational Construct for Affect, Appraisals, and Coping of Late Adolescent Females
The Method and Meaning of Emotional Expression and Experience during Adolescence
This review provides an overview of research on emotional expression and emotional experience during adolescence, defined as the period between the ages of 10 and 21 years. Methodological issues related to research on affect in adolescence are reviewed. This is followed by a review of research in two major content areas: (a) biological influences on emotional expression and experience; and (b) emotion in the family. The section on biological infl…
Ethnic and gender differences in risk for early adolescent substance use
Unraveling the Ties that Bind: Affective Expression and Perceived Conflict in Parent adolescent Interactions
The purpose of this observational study was (1) to examine the process of parent-adolescent relationship change across puberty, and (2) to examine the relationship between affective expression in interactions and perceived relationship conflict. Data were collected on 85 intact families with adolescents in grades 5 to 9 (n = 44 males, 41 females). Each parent and adolescent took part in two 8-minute conversations one about an activity they report…
Unraveling the Ties that Bind: Affective Expression and Perceived Conflict in Parent adolescent Interactions
The purpose of this observational study was (1) to examine the process of parent-adolescent relationship change across puberty, and (2) to examine the relationship between affective expression in interactions and perceived relationship conflict. Data were collected on 85 intact families with adolescents in grades 5 to 9 (n = 44 males, 41 females). Each parent and adolescent took part in two 8-minute conversations one about an activity they report…
Ethnic and gender differences in risk for early adolescent substance use
Predictors of quality and child outcomes in family child care settings
Personal and Social Resources as Predictors of Parenting in Homeless Families
This research examined predictors of positive and negative parenting behaviors in homeless families. Personal and social resources were tested as predictors of parenting in an ethnically heterogeneous sample of 38 homeless children between the ages of 6 and 12 and their parents. Parents' social support networks included few familiar intimates. Social support did not predict positive or negative parenting. Stressors predicted negative but not posi…
Family income, parent education, and perceived constraints as predictors of observed program quality and parent rated program quality
Daily Experiences of Emotions and Social Contexts of Securely and Insecurely Attached Young Adults
This study examined daily emotions and social contexts of young adults who differed in global attachment style (secure vs. insecure). Sixty-nine college students (41% male, 59% female) completed self-report measures of attachment and provided time-sampling data on moods, companionship, and activities using the experience sampling method. Secure (n = 41)andinsecure (n = 28)young adults spenta similar proportion of time with familiar intimates and …
Teacher education, motivation, compensation, workplace support, and links to quality of center-based child care and teachers’ intention to stay in the early childhood profession
Attachment as an Organizational Construct for Affect, Appraisals, and Coping of Late Adolescent Females
Children's Perceptions of Family Relationships as Assessed in a Doll Story Completion Task: Links to Parenting, Social Competence, and Externalizing Behavior
This study was designed to examine the links between parenting, children's perceptions of family relationships, and children's social behavior. Seventy‐four children (M age=6.01 years; 39 boys; 35 girls) and their parents took part in the study. Children completed relationship‐oriented doll stories that were coded for coherence, prosocial themes, and aggressive themes. Parents completed a report of their child's social behavior, a parenting scale…
Family child care in four Midwestern states: Multiple measures of quality and relations to outcomes by licensed status and subsidy program participation
Gray space and green space proximity associated with higher anxiety in youth with autism
I Have a Hippopotamus!”: Preparing Effective Early Childhood Environmental Educators
This article describes an early childhood teacher-preparation program that infuses environmental education and nature experiences into courses, practicum, and student-teaching experiences. Program philosophy, pedagogy, materials, and methods are described and linked to the Early Childhood Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence, the Guidelines for the Preparation and Professional Development of Environmental Educators, and sta…
Unraveling the Ties that Bind: Affective Expression and Perceived Conflict in Parent adolescent Interactions
The purpose of this observational study was (1) to examine the process of parent-adolescent relationship change across puberty, and (2) to examine the relationship between affective expression in interactions and perceived relationship conflict. Data were collected on 85 intact families with adolescents in grades 5 to 9 (n = 44 males, 41 females). Each parent and adolescent took part in two 8-minute conversations one about an activity they report…
The Method and Meaning of Emotional Expression and Experience during Adolescence
This review provides an overview of research on emotional expression and emotional experience during adolescence, defined as the period between the ages of 10 and 21 years. Methodological issues related to research on affect in adolescence are reviewed. This is followed by a review of research in two major content areas: (a) biological influences on emotional expression and experience; and (b) emotion in the family. The section on biological infl…
Ethnic and gender differences in risk for early adolescent substance use
Attachment as an Organizational Construct for Affect, Appraisals, and Coping of Late Adolescent Females
Personal and Social Resources as Predictors of Parenting in Homeless Families
This research examined predictors of positive and negative parenting behaviors in homeless families. Personal and social resources were tested as predictors of parenting in an ethnically heterogeneous sample of 38 homeless children between the ages of 6 and 12 and their parents. Parents' social support networks included few familiar intimates. Social support did not predict positive or negative parenting. Stressors predicted negative but not posi…
Children's Perceptions of Family Relationships as Assessed in a Doll Story Completion Task: Links to Parenting, Social Competence, and Externalizing Behavior
This study was designed to examine the links between parenting, children's perceptions of family relationships, and children's social behavior. Seventy‐four children (M age=6.01 years; 39 boys; 35 girls) and their parents took part in the study. Children completed relationship‐oriented doll stories that were coded for coherence, prosocial themes, and aggressive themes. Parents completed a report of their child's social behavior, a parenting scale…
Daily Experiences of Emotions and Social Contexts of Securely and Insecurely Attached Young Adults
This study examined daily emotions and social contexts of young adults who differed in global attachment style (secure vs. insecure). Sixty-nine college students (41% male, 59% female) completed self-report measures of attachment and provided time-sampling data on moods, companionship, and activities using the experience sampling method. Secure (n = 41)andinsecure (n = 28)young adults spenta similar proportion of time with familiar intimates and …
The Role of Child Emotional Responsiveness and Maternal Negative Emotion Expression in Children's Coping Strategy Use
This study examined the additive and interactive effects of children's trait vicarious emotional responsiveness and maternal negative emotion expression on children's use of coping strategies. Ninety‐five children (mean age = 5.87 years) and their mothers and teachers participated in the study. The mothers reported on their own negative emotion expression and the children's empathic concern and personal distress tendencies. The mothers and teache…
Teacher education, motivation, compensation, workplace support, and links to quality of center-based child care and teachers’ intention to stay in the early childhood profession
Family income, parent education, and perceived constraints as predictors of observed program quality and parent rated program quality
Family child care in four Midwestern states: Multiple measures of quality and relations to outcomes by licensed status and subsidy program participation
Predictors of quality and child outcomes in family child care settings
I Have a Hippopotamus!”: Preparing Effective Early Childhood Environmental Educators
This article describes an early childhood teacher-preparation program that infuses environmental education and nature experiences into courses, practicum, and student-teaching experiences. Program philosophy, pedagogy, materials, and methods are described and linked to the Early Childhood Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence, the Guidelines for the Preparation and Professional Development of Environmental Educators, and sta…
Gray space and green space proximity associated with higher anxiety in youth with autism
Are You Close with Your Parents? The Mediation Effects of Parent–Child Closeness on Young Adults’ Financial Socialization Through Young Adults’ Self-reported Responsibility
Pathways to Low-Income Children’s Self-Regulation: Child Temperament and the Qualities of Teacher–Child Relationships
Research Findings: We examined low-income children’s temperament (regulatory and reactive) as a predictor of their self-regulation, and teacher-child relationship (closeness and conflict) as a moderator of associations between child temperament and selfregulation. This study involved 291 children (132 girls) (Mage = 53.88 months, SD = 6.44 months) from three EduCare programs. Parents reported on children’s temperament and teachers reported on qua…
Saints, Superheroes, and Zombies: Early Childhood Professionals’ Well-Being and Relational Health in the Waning Days of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Early childhood education is a demanding profession. Understanding how early childhood (EC) professionals’ draw on internal assets and external resources to sustain well-being is critical, as their well-being is linked to the quality of the care and education they provide. This phenomenological study examined professionals’ strengths and assets, how they used them to manage workplace demands to sustain well-being, and how they engaged with broade…
A developmental and ecological investigation of preschool children’s environmental moral reasoning
Psychology (17 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (11 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works)