Michael J Sulik
Biographic Data
| ID | 4895653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Sulik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Sulik |
| SIGNATURE | SULIK M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4405-6554 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Understanding Learning Variability in Early Childhood: An Equity-Centered Assessment of Cognitive Regulation among Diverse Preschool Children
Research Findings: Children’s learning is shaped by inequitable access to resources, contributing to persistent socioeconomic, racial, and linguistic disparities. This study examined the validity and predictive utility of short, scalable direct assessments of cognitive regulation – inhibitory control, working memory, and processing speed – administered to a diverse sample of preschool-aged children (Fall N = 866; Spring N = 1111; Mean Age = 4.3 y…
The Emotion Matching Task (EMT): Anti-Bias Adaptations, Measurement Invariance, and Longitudinal Growth in Preschoolers
Research Findings: Emotion knowledge is part of a broader network of social-emotional skills and includes the ability to recognize (receptive), label (expressive), and understand the causes and consequences (situational) of emotions. Research on emotion knowledge development has predominantly been conducted with relatively small or non-diverse samples. The current study employed a racially and linguistically sensitive measurement approach and exa…
Kindergarten Health and Absenteeism: Implications for Academic Achievement and Racial and Ethnic Disparities
The Cambridge Handbook of the Development of Coping
Despite broad interest in how children and youth cope with stress and how others can support their coping, this is the first Handbook to consolidate the many theories and large bodies of research that contribute to the study of the development of coping. The Handbook's goal is field building - it brings together theory and research from across the spectrum of psychological, developmental, and related sciences to inform our understanding of coping…
Universal Screening of Hunger, Tiredness, and Sickness: Implications for Kindergarten Readiness and Racial/Ethnic Disparities
This study investigated associations of three teacher-reported health indicators—hunger, tiredness, and sickness—with kindergarten readiness skills in San Francisco Unified School District (N = 12,423; female = 48%; Mage = 5.47, SDage = 0.30, rangeage = 4.67–7.00; Asian American = 26%, Black = 5%, Latinx = 20%, Multiracial/Other = 23%, White = 18%). Research Findings: Accounting for demographic characteristics, each teacher-reported health indica…
Impacts of two public preschool programs on school readiness in San Francisco
Widely used measures of classroom quality are largely unrelated to preschool skill development
Executive function mediates the association between cumulative risk and learning in Ghanaian schoolchildren
Research on the associations among adversity, executive function (EF), and academic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, where developmental risk factors are more prevalent and impoverished environments are more widespread than in high income countries, is sparse. This study examines the relations among cumulative risk, EF, and learning outcomes measured 2-years later in Ghanaian third- and fourth-graders ( N = 371; 49% female), shedding…
Early and concurrent home stimulation: Unique and indirect links with fine motor skills among 4-year-old children in rural Pakistan
Fine motor skills enable children to make precise and coordinated movements with their hands and support their ability to engage in everyday activities and learning experiences. In a longitudinal study of 1,058 4-year-old children in rural Pakistan (n = 488 girls), we examined how prior and concurrent levels of home stimulation relate to change in fine motor skills from ages 2 to 4 while controlling for family wealth, maternal education, number o…
Self‐regulated behavior and parent‐child co‐regulation are associated with young children's physiological response to receiving critical adult feedback
Using piecewise growth curve trajectory modeling, we investigated kindergartners' physiological responses to receiving critical feedback from an adult during a laboratory drawing task. Further, we tested how children's independent self‐regulated behavior, as well as the quality of parent‐child co‐regulation, related to physiological reactivity to and recovery from this challenge. We used respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) to measure parasympathet…
The relations of children’s emotion knowledge to their observed social play and reticent/uninvolved behavior in preschool: Moderation by effortful control
Using data from a study of 140 preschool children (39% female), we examined the relations between direct assessments of emotion knowledge and naturalistic observations of behavior during free‐play periods, and tested parent‐ and teacher‐reported effortful control as a moderator of these relations. Basic emotion recognition was unrelated to social play and reticent behavior, whereas situational understanding of emotions (thought to be a relatively…
Coping Across the Transition to Adolescence: Evidence of Interindividual Consistency and Mean-Level Change
The goal of this study was to examine various forms of coping across the transition to adolescence, with a focus on interindividual (correlational) consistency of coping and mean-level changes in coping. Adolescents’ emotional coping, problem solving, positive cognitive restructuring, avoidance, and support seeking in response to everyday stressors were assessed via a daily diary beginning when participants ( N = 155) were approximately 9 years o…
The development of prosocial moral reasoning and a prosocial orientation in young adulthood: Concurrent and longitudinal correlates
We examined stability and change in prosocial moral reasoning (PRM) assessed longitudinally at ages 20/21, 22/23, 24/25, 26/27, and 31/32 years (N = 32; 16 female) using a pencil-and-paper measure of moral reasoning and examined relations of PRM and prosocial behavior with one another and with empathy, sympathy measured with self- and friend reports in adulthood, self- and mother reports of prosocial tendencies in adolescence, and observed prosoc…
The relations of ego-resiliency and emotion socialization to the development of empathy and prosocial behavior across early childhood
The present study explored early personality and environmental predictors of the development of young children's empathy, as well as relations of empathy to prosocial behavior with peers at a later age. How children manage their own emotions and behaviors when under stress--their ego-resiliency--would be expected to affect their responses to others' emotions. Also, socialization experiences, such as the quality of parenting behaviors, have been a…
Development of Ego‐resiliency: Relations to Observed Parenting and Polymorphisms in the Serotonin Transporter Gene During Early Childhood
We used observed parenting behaviors, along with genetic variants and haplotypes of the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4), as predictors of children's ego-resiliency during early childhood ( N =153). Quality of mothers' parenting was observed at 18 months of age and mothers' reports of ego-resiliency were collected at six time points from 18 to 84 months. Genetic data were collected at 72 months. Observed parenting was positively associated wit…
The association of individual characteristics and neighborhood poverty on the dental care of American adolescents
The findings from this study indicate that neighborhoods influence dental care utilization patterns in adolescents
Interactions between serotonin transporter gene haplotypes and quality of mothers' parenting predict the development of children's noncompliance
The LPR and STin2 polymorphisms of the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) were combined into haplotypes that, together with quality of maternal parenting, were used to predict initial levels and linear change in children's (N = 138) noncompliance and aggression from age 18-54 months. Quality of mothers' parenting behavior was observed when children were 18 months old, and nonparental caregivers' reports of noncompliance and aggression were colle…
Differential susceptibility and the early development of aggression: Interactive effects of respiratory sinus arrhythmia and environmental quality
The purpose of the current study was to predict the development of aggressive behavior from young children's respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and environmental quality. In a longitudinal sample of 213 children, baseline RSA, RSA suppression in response to a film of crying babies, and a composite measure of environmental quality (incorporating socioeconomic status and marital adjustment) were measured, and parent-reported aggression was assessed…
How the study of regulation can inform the study of coping
It is advantageous to study regulation and coping and their development at multiple levels of expression and origin simultaneously. We discuss several topics of current interest in the emotion-related regulation literature that are relevant to coping, including conceptual issues related to definitions and types of coping, types of physiological responses deemed to tap emotion regulation that could be pursued in work on coping, and findings on the…
The development of prosocial moral reasoning and a prosocial orientation in young adulthood: Concurrent and longitudinal correlates
We examined stability and change in prosocial moral reasoning (PRM) assessed longitudinally at ages 20/21, 22/23, 24/25, 26/27, and 31/32 years (N = 32; 16 female) using a pencil-and-paper measure of moral reasoning and examined relations of PRM and prosocial behavior with one another and with empathy, sympathy measured with self- and friend reports in adulthood, self- and mother reports of prosocial tendencies in adolescence, and observed prosoc…
Widely used measures of classroom quality are largely unrelated to preschool skill development
Executive function mediates the association between cumulative risk and learning in Ghanaian schoolchildren
Research on the associations among adversity, executive function (EF), and academic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, where developmental risk factors are more prevalent and impoverished environments are more widespread than in high income countries, is sparse. This study examines the relations among cumulative risk, EF, and learning outcomes measured 2-years later in Ghanaian third- and fourth-graders ( N = 371; 49% female), shedding…
Coping Across the Transition to Adolescence: Evidence of Interindividual Consistency and Mean-Level Change
The goal of this study was to examine various forms of coping across the transition to adolescence, with a focus on interindividual (correlational) consistency of coping and mean-level changes in coping. Adolescents’ emotional coping, problem solving, positive cognitive restructuring, avoidance, and support seeking in response to everyday stressors were assessed via a daily diary beginning when participants ( N = 155) were approximately 9 years o…
Interactions between serotonin transporter gene haplotypes and quality of mothers' parenting predict the development of children's noncompliance
The LPR and STin2 polymorphisms of the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) were combined into haplotypes that, together with quality of maternal parenting, were used to predict initial levels and linear change in children's (N = 138) noncompliance and aggression from age 18-54 months. Quality of mothers' parenting behavior was observed when children were 18 months old, and nonparental caregivers' reports of noncompliance and aggression were colle…
Impacts of two public preschool programs on school readiness in San Francisco
Differential susceptibility and the early development of aggression: Interactive effects of respiratory sinus arrhythmia and environmental quality
The purpose of the current study was to predict the development of aggressive behavior from young children's respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and environmental quality. In a longitudinal sample of 213 children, baseline RSA, RSA suppression in response to a film of crying babies, and a composite measure of environmental quality (incorporating socioeconomic status and marital adjustment) were measured, and parent-reported aggression was assessed…
Self‐regulated behavior and parent‐child co‐regulation are associated with young children's physiological response to receiving critical adult feedback
Using piecewise growth curve trajectory modeling, we investigated kindergartners' physiological responses to receiving critical feedback from an adult during a laboratory drawing task. Further, we tested how children's independent self‐regulated behavior, as well as the quality of parent‐child co‐regulation, related to physiological reactivity to and recovery from this challenge. We used respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) to measure parasympathet…
The relations of children’s emotion knowledge to their observed social play and reticent/uninvolved behavior in preschool: Moderation by effortful control
Using data from a study of 140 preschool children (39% female), we examined the relations between direct assessments of emotion knowledge and naturalistic observations of behavior during free‐play periods, and tested parent‐ and teacher‐reported effortful control as a moderator of these relations. Basic emotion recognition was unrelated to social play and reticent behavior, whereas situational understanding of emotions (thought to be a relatively…
How the study of regulation can inform the study of coping
It is advantageous to study regulation and coping and their development at multiple levels of expression and origin simultaneously. We discuss several topics of current interest in the emotion-related regulation literature that are relevant to coping, including conceptual issues related to definitions and types of coping, types of physiological responses deemed to tap emotion regulation that could be pursued in work on coping, and findings on the…
The association of individual characteristics and neighborhood poverty on the dental care of American adolescents
The findings from this study indicate that neighborhoods influence dental care utilization patterns in adolescents
Interactions between serotonin transporter gene haplotypes and quality of mothers' parenting predict the development of children's noncompliance
The LPR and STin2 polymorphisms of the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) were combined into haplotypes that, together with quality of maternal parenting, were used to predict initial levels and linear change in children's (N = 138) noncompliance and aggression from age 18-54 months. Quality of mothers' parenting behavior was observed when children were 18 months old, and nonparental caregivers' reports of noncompliance and aggression were colle…
Differential susceptibility and the early development of aggression: Interactive effects of respiratory sinus arrhythmia and environmental quality
The purpose of the current study was to predict the development of aggressive behavior from young children's respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and environmental quality. In a longitudinal sample of 213 children, baseline RSA, RSA suppression in response to a film of crying babies, and a composite measure of environmental quality (incorporating socioeconomic status and marital adjustment) were measured, and parent-reported aggression was assessed…
The relations of ego-resiliency and emotion socialization to the development of empathy and prosocial behavior across early childhood
The present study explored early personality and environmental predictors of the development of young children's empathy, as well as relations of empathy to prosocial behavior with peers at a later age. How children manage their own emotions and behaviors when under stress--their ego-resiliency--would be expected to affect their responses to others' emotions. Also, socialization experiences, such as the quality of parenting behaviors, have been a…
Development of Ego‐resiliency: Relations to Observed Parenting and Polymorphisms in the Serotonin Transporter Gene During Early Childhood
We used observed parenting behaviors, along with genetic variants and haplotypes of the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4), as predictors of children's ego-resiliency during early childhood ( N =153). Quality of mothers' parenting was observed at 18 months of age and mothers' reports of ego-resiliency were collected at six time points from 18 to 84 months. Genetic data were collected at 72 months. Observed parenting was positively associated wit…
Coping Across the Transition to Adolescence: Evidence of Interindividual Consistency and Mean-Level Change
The goal of this study was to examine various forms of coping across the transition to adolescence, with a focus on interindividual (correlational) consistency of coping and mean-level changes in coping. Adolescents’ emotional coping, problem solving, positive cognitive restructuring, avoidance, and support seeking in response to everyday stressors were assessed via a daily diary beginning when participants ( N = 155) were approximately 9 years o…
The development of prosocial moral reasoning and a prosocial orientation in young adulthood: Concurrent and longitudinal correlates
We examined stability and change in prosocial moral reasoning (PRM) assessed longitudinally at ages 20/21, 22/23, 24/25, 26/27, and 31/32 years (N = 32; 16 female) using a pencil-and-paper measure of moral reasoning and examined relations of PRM and prosocial behavior with one another and with empathy, sympathy measured with self- and friend reports in adulthood, self- and mother reports of prosocial tendencies in adolescence, and observed prosoc…
The relations of children’s emotion knowledge to their observed social play and reticent/uninvolved behavior in preschool: Moderation by effortful control
Using data from a study of 140 preschool children (39% female), we examined the relations between direct assessments of emotion knowledge and naturalistic observations of behavior during free‐play periods, and tested parent‐ and teacher‐reported effortful control as a moderator of these relations. Basic emotion recognition was unrelated to social play and reticent behavior, whereas situational understanding of emotions (thought to be a relatively…
Self‐regulated behavior and parent‐child co‐regulation are associated with young children's physiological response to receiving critical adult feedback
Using piecewise growth curve trajectory modeling, we investigated kindergartners' physiological responses to receiving critical feedback from an adult during a laboratory drawing task. Further, we tested how children's independent self‐regulated behavior, as well as the quality of parent‐child co‐regulation, related to physiological reactivity to and recovery from this challenge. We used respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) to measure parasympathet…
Early and concurrent home stimulation: Unique and indirect links with fine motor skills among 4-year-old children in rural Pakistan
Fine motor skills enable children to make precise and coordinated movements with their hands and support their ability to engage in everyday activities and learning experiences. In a longitudinal study of 1,058 4-year-old children in rural Pakistan (n = 488 girls), we examined how prior and concurrent levels of home stimulation relate to change in fine motor skills from ages 2 to 4 while controlling for family wealth, maternal education, number o…
Impacts of two public preschool programs on school readiness in San Francisco
Widely used measures of classroom quality are largely unrelated to preschool skill development
Executive function mediates the association between cumulative risk and learning in Ghanaian schoolchildren
Research on the associations among adversity, executive function (EF), and academic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, where developmental risk factors are more prevalent and impoverished environments are more widespread than in high income countries, is sparse. This study examines the relations among cumulative risk, EF, and learning outcomes measured 2-years later in Ghanaian third- and fourth-graders ( N = 371; 49% female), shedding…
The Cambridge Handbook of the Development of Coping
Despite broad interest in how children and youth cope with stress and how others can support their coping, this is the first Handbook to consolidate the many theories and large bodies of research that contribute to the study of the development of coping. The Handbook's goal is field building - it brings together theory and research from across the spectrum of psychological, developmental, and related sciences to inform our understanding of coping…
Universal Screening of Hunger, Tiredness, and Sickness: Implications for Kindergarten Readiness and Racial/Ethnic Disparities
This study investigated associations of three teacher-reported health indicators—hunger, tiredness, and sickness—with kindergarten readiness skills in San Francisco Unified School District (N = 12,423; female = 48%; Mage = 5.47, SDage = 0.30, rangeage = 4.67–7.00; Asian American = 26%, Black = 5%, Latinx = 20%, Multiracial/Other = 23%, White = 18%). Research Findings: Accounting for demographic characteristics, each teacher-reported health indica…
Understanding Learning Variability in Early Childhood: An Equity-Centered Assessment of Cognitive Regulation among Diverse Preschool Children
Research Findings: Children’s learning is shaped by inequitable access to resources, contributing to persistent socioeconomic, racial, and linguistic disparities. This study examined the validity and predictive utility of short, scalable direct assessments of cognitive regulation – inhibitory control, working memory, and processing speed – administered to a diverse sample of preschool-aged children (Fall N = 866; Spring N = 1111; Mean Age = 4.3 y…
The Emotion Matching Task (EMT): Anti-Bias Adaptations, Measurement Invariance, and Longitudinal Growth in Preschoolers
Research Findings: Emotion knowledge is part of a broader network of social-emotional skills and includes the ability to recognize (receptive), label (expressive), and understand the causes and consequences (situational) of emotions. Research on emotion knowledge development has predominantly been conducted with relatively small or non-diverse samples. The current study employed a racially and linguistically sensitive measurement approach and exa…
Kindergarten Health and Absenteeism: Implications for Academic Achievement and Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Psychology (16 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (12 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Cognition (4 works)