JoAnn L Robinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5508887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | JoAnn L Robinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | JoAnn L |
| FAMILY NAME | Robinson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBINSON J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Professional quality of life in home visitors
Infant and early childhood home visiting models are gaining prominence as effective programs for families. Most U.S. state infant mental health associations (IMHAs) recommend reflective supervision (RS) and Infant Mental Health (IMH‐E ® ) Endorsement ® as components of home visitor professional development. These efforts may promote workforce professional quality of life. It is unknown whether a workplace policy to provide RS improves the likelih…
Beyond overwhelmed
The Professional Is the Personal
Infant mental health (IMH) as an interdisciplinary field relies on relationships to heal past trauma and promote secure parent-infant attachment. Stress related to performing IMH work has gained more attention in workforce development/well-being literature. Yet, IMH workforce engagement in self-care practices to manage work stress is left unexplored. This qualitative investigation examines a purposive sample (N = 21) of clinical IMH practitioners…
Low-income children’s readiness for group-based learning at age 3 and prekindergarten outcomes at age 5
Although 3-year-olds in the United States may attend prekindergarten prior to formal school entry in kindergarten, few investigations focus on the socioemotional foundations of classroom learning at age 3 and their relationship to later achievement. This study examined the relationship between age 3 readiness for group-based learning, modeled as the latent constructs, effortful control and social communication, and age 5 classroom adjustment and …
Is Reflective Supervision Enough? An Exploration of Workforce Perspectives
Infant mental health practice requires the performance of intense emotional labor. Professionals comprising the infant mental health (IMH) field are largely women at seminal points in adult life‐span development. The purpose of this article is to explore the day‐to‐day challenges faced by clinical infant mental health professionals and their perspectives on the supports available for effective job performance. We review reflective supervision as …
Do Young Children's Representations of Discipline and Empathy Moderate the Effects of Punishment on Emotion Regulation
This study examined whether children's representations of parenting (perceptions of authoritative discipline and empathy) moderated the association between harsh punishment—including corporal punishment (CP) and verbal punishment (VP)—and children's emotion regulation at the age of five years. Participants were 559 low‐income mother‐child dyads. Maternal self‐reports and home observations were used to measure punishment. Children's representation…
Mothers’ Resolution of Their Young Children’s Psychiatric Diagnoses
Developmental trajectories in toddlers' self-restraint predict individual differences in executive functions 14 years later
We examined whether self-restraint in early childhood predicted individual differences in 3 executive functions (EFs; inhibiting prepotent responses, updating working memory, and shifting task sets) in late adolescence in a sample of approximately 950 twins. At ages 14, 20, 24, and 36 months, the children were shown an attractive toy and told not to touch it for 30 s. Latency to touch the toy increased with age, and latent class growth modeling d…
The developmental origins of a disposition toward empathy
The authors investigated the development of a disposition toward empathy and its genetic and environmental origins. Young twins' (N = 409 pairs) cognitive (hypothesis testing) and affective (empathic concern) empathy and prosocial behavior in response to simulated pain by mothers and examiners were observed at multiple time points. Children's mean level of empathy and prosociality increased from 14 to 36 months. Positive concurrent and longitudin…
Relational and Individual Resources as Predictors of Empathy in Early Childhood
The goal of this study was to examine children's cognitive and language development and social engagement of mother as mediators of the relationship between maternal emotional availability at 15 months and children's empathy at the ages of two and four. Participants were 661 low‐income, ethnically diverse mother‐child dyads participating in a trial of home visitation in the Denver area. Using home‐ and lab‐based free‐play episodes, mothers' emoti…
Developmental Trends in Self‐regulation among Low‐income Toddlers
The attainment of self‐regulatory skills during the toddler years is an understudied issue, especially among low‐income children. The present study used growth modeling to examine the change over time and the final status in children's abilities to self‐regulate, in a sample of 2,441 low‐income children aged 14 to 36 months. Positive growth in their self‐regulation occurred between 14 and 36 months, but individual variation was observed in both t…
Maternal Preconceptions About Parenting Predict Child Temperament, Maternal Sensitivity, and Children's Empathy
This study examined the influence of maternal preconceptions on child difficult temperament at 6 months and maternal sensitivity at 12-15 months and whether all 3 variables predicted children's empathy at 21-24 months. Within a low-income, ethnically diverse sample of 175 mother-child dyads, path models were tested with 3 empathy indices (prosocial, indifference, inquisitive) as outcomes. Results indicated that maternal preconceptions significant…
Early Head Start
The authors review the significance of the research summarized in this special issue, including activities that contribute to successful university–community partnerships. The promise of Early Head Start (EHS) will be realized if investigators focus on moderators and mediators of program effects, program quality, and linkages between Early Head Start and community resources. Key factors that must be taken into account in the analysis of EHS progr…
Unraveling the Ecology of Risks for Early Childhood Asthma Among Ethnically Diverse Families in the Southwest
Objectives. We describe the prevalence of asthma risk factors within racial/ethnic and language groups of infants participating in an intervention study for reducing chronic asthma. Methods. Low-income children aged 9 to 24 months with 3 or more episodes of wheezing illness were enrolled. Baseline information included family and medical histories, allergic status, environmental exposures, emotional environment, and caregiver psychosocial resource…
Home visiting
Integrating an emotional regulation perspective in a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation
This paper highlights theoretical and practical issues concerning the ways in which emotional development and regulation processes of the mother-infant dyad are influenced by home visitation. The role of emotion regulation and emotional availability, important mediators of program influence on a variety of child and family outcomes are discussed. Emotion regulating capacities of the infant are reviewed in light of both early intervention and late…
Patterns of development in early empathic behavior
The second year of life is a period of developmental change and instability in empathic expressions. In this study, we identify specific developmental patterns of global empathy during the second year and investigate maternal style, family environment, and temperamental factors as moderator influences on these patterns of development. The sample consists of 158 children selected from twin pairs whose empathic development had been previously studi…
Maternal sensitivity in the second year
In an investigation of gender-based differences in autonomy and relatedness in the mother-toddler dyad, gender-specific stylistic differences were found in mothers' sensitivity toward their toddlers. In the context of greater sensitivity, boys appeared to control the flow of interactions (initiation and maintenance) to a greater extent than did girls
The heritability of inhibited and uninhibited behavior
Young children who respond to the unfamiliar with wariness and avoidance belong to a temperamental category called behaviorally inhibited; sociable children who approach the unfamiliar are called uninhibited. This study assessed the heritable nature of these 2 categories. The longitudinal sample consisted of 178 same-sex twin pairs seen at 14 months and 162 pairs seen at 20 and 24 months. An aggregate inhibition index was constructed at each of t…
The development of empathy in twins
This study examined empathy in 94 monozygotic (MZ) and 90 dizygotic (DZ) twin pairs during the 2nd year of life. Children's reactions to simulations of distress in others were videotaped in home and laboratory settings. Some components of concern for others increased with age between 14 and 20 months for both MZ and DZ twins. Girls scored higher than boys on most of these observational measures. The different components (e.g., emotional concern, …
The Relationship of Family Background and Casework Involvement to Placement Stability
Stability of foster family placements is viewed as a function of the types of families foster children come from and the involvement of caseworkers in the children's cases. Two groups of children (N = 30) whose foster care histories differed in the number of placements they had experienced were compared. The identification of children prior to their first placement as "at risk" for instability in foster care is recommended, with the targeting of …
The development of empathy in twins
This study examined empathy in 94 monozygotic (MZ) and 90 dizygotic (DZ) twin pairs during the 2nd year of life. Children's reactions to simulations of distress in others were videotaped in home and laboratory settings. Some components of concern for others increased with age between 14 and 20 months for both MZ and DZ twins. Girls scored higher than boys on most of these observational measures. The different components (e.g., emotional concern, …
Developmental trajectories in toddlers' self-restraint predict individual differences in executive functions 14 years later
We examined whether self-restraint in early childhood predicted individual differences in 3 executive functions (EFs; inhibiting prepotent responses, updating working memory, and shifting task sets) in late adolescence in a sample of approximately 950 twins. At ages 14, 20, 24, and 36 months, the children were shown an attractive toy and told not to touch it for 30 s. Latency to touch the toy increased with age, and latent class growth modeling d…
The heritability of inhibited and uninhibited behavior
Young children who respond to the unfamiliar with wariness and avoidance belong to a temperamental category called behaviorally inhibited; sociable children who approach the unfamiliar are called uninhibited. This study assessed the heritable nature of these 2 categories. The longitudinal sample consisted of 178 same-sex twin pairs seen at 14 months and 162 pairs seen at 20 and 24 months. An aggregate inhibition index was constructed at each of t…
Maternal Preconceptions About Parenting Predict Child Temperament, Maternal Sensitivity, and Children's Empathy
This study examined the influence of maternal preconceptions on child difficult temperament at 6 months and maternal sensitivity at 12-15 months and whether all 3 variables predicted children's empathy at 21-24 months. Within a low-income, ethnically diverse sample of 175 mother-child dyads, path models were tested with 3 empathy indices (prosocial, indifference, inquisitive) as outcomes. Results indicated that maternal preconceptions significant…
Developmental Trends in Self‐regulation among Low‐income Toddlers
The attainment of self‐regulatory skills during the toddler years is an understudied issue, especially among low‐income children. The present study used growth modeling to examine the change over time and the final status in children's abilities to self‐regulate, in a sample of 2,441 low‐income children aged 14 to 36 months. Positive growth in their self‐regulation occurred between 14 and 36 months, but individual variation was observed in both t…
The Professional Is the Personal
Infant mental health (IMH) as an interdisciplinary field relies on relationships to heal past trauma and promote secure parent-infant attachment. Stress related to performing IMH work has gained more attention in workforce development/well-being literature. Yet, IMH workforce engagement in self-care practices to manage work stress is left unexplored. This qualitative investigation examines a purposive sample (N = 21) of clinical IMH practitioners…
Is Reflective Supervision Enough? An Exploration of Workforce Perspectives
Infant mental health practice requires the performance of intense emotional labor. Professionals comprising the infant mental health (IMH) field are largely women at seminal points in adult life‐span development. The purpose of this article is to explore the day‐to‐day challenges faced by clinical infant mental health professionals and their perspectives on the supports available for effective job performance. We review reflective supervision as …
Patterns of development in early empathic behavior
The second year of life is a period of developmental change and instability in empathic expressions. In this study, we identify specific developmental patterns of global empathy during the second year and investigate maternal style, family environment, and temperamental factors as moderator influences on these patterns of development. The sample consists of 158 children selected from twin pairs whose empathic development had been previously studi…
Unraveling the Ecology of Risks for Early Childhood Asthma Among Ethnically Diverse Families in the Southwest
Objectives. We describe the prevalence of asthma risk factors within racial/ethnic and language groups of infants participating in an intervention study for reducing chronic asthma. Methods. Low-income children aged 9 to 24 months with 3 or more episodes of wheezing illness were enrolled. Baseline information included family and medical histories, allergic status, environmental exposures, emotional environment, and caregiver psychosocial resource…
Relational and Individual Resources as Predictors of Empathy in Early Childhood
The goal of this study was to examine children's cognitive and language development and social engagement of mother as mediators of the relationship between maternal emotional availability at 15 months and children's empathy at the ages of two and four. Participants were 661 low‐income, ethnically diverse mother‐child dyads participating in a trial of home visitation in the Denver area. Using home‐ and lab‐based free‐play episodes, mothers' emoti…
Professional quality of life in home visitors
Infant and early childhood home visiting models are gaining prominence as effective programs for families. Most U.S. state infant mental health associations (IMHAs) recommend reflective supervision (RS) and Infant Mental Health (IMH‐E ® ) Endorsement ® as components of home visitor professional development. These efforts may promote workforce professional quality of life. It is unknown whether a workplace policy to provide RS improves the likelih…
Do Young Children's Representations of Discipline and Empathy Moderate the Effects of Punishment on Emotion Regulation
This study examined whether children's representations of parenting (perceptions of authoritative discipline and empathy) moderated the association between harsh punishment—including corporal punishment (CP) and verbal punishment (VP)—and children's emotion regulation at the age of five years. Participants were 559 low‐income mother‐child dyads. Maternal self‐reports and home observations were used to measure punishment. Children's representation…
Early Head Start
The authors review the significance of the research summarized in this special issue, including activities that contribute to successful university–community partnerships. The promise of Early Head Start (EHS) will be realized if investigators focus on moderators and mediators of program effects, program quality, and linkages between Early Head Start and community resources. Key factors that must be taken into account in the analysis of EHS progr…
The Relationship of Family Background and Casework Involvement to Placement Stability
Stability of foster family placements is viewed as a function of the types of families foster children come from and the involvement of caseworkers in the children's cases. Two groups of children (N = 30) whose foster care histories differed in the number of placements they had experienced were compared. The identification of children prior to their first placement as "at risk" for instability in foster care is recommended, with the targeting of …
The heritability of inhibited and uninhibited behavior
Young children who respond to the unfamiliar with wariness and avoidance belong to a temperamental category called behaviorally inhibited; sociable children who approach the unfamiliar are called uninhibited. This study assessed the heritable nature of these 2 categories. The longitudinal sample consisted of 178 same-sex twin pairs seen at 14 months and 162 pairs seen at 20 and 24 months. An aggregate inhibition index was constructed at each of t…
The development of empathy in twins
This study examined empathy in 94 monozygotic (MZ) and 90 dizygotic (DZ) twin pairs during the 2nd year of life. Children's reactions to simulations of distress in others were videotaped in home and laboratory settings. Some components of concern for others increased with age between 14 and 20 months for both MZ and DZ twins. Girls scored higher than boys on most of these observational measures. The different components (e.g., emotional concern, …
Patterns of development in early empathic behavior
The second year of life is a period of developmental change and instability in empathic expressions. In this study, we identify specific developmental patterns of global empathy during the second year and investigate maternal style, family environment, and temperamental factors as moderator influences on these patterns of development. The sample consists of 158 children selected from twin pairs whose empathic development had been previously studi…
Maternal sensitivity in the second year
In an investigation of gender-based differences in autonomy and relatedness in the mother-toddler dyad, gender-specific stylistic differences were found in mothers' sensitivity toward their toddlers. In the context of greater sensitivity, boys appeared to control the flow of interactions (initiation and maintenance) to a greater extent than did girls
Integrating an emotional regulation perspective in a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation
This paper highlights theoretical and practical issues concerning the ways in which emotional development and regulation processes of the mother-infant dyad are influenced by home visitation. The role of emotion regulation and emotional availability, important mediators of program influence on a variety of child and family outcomes are discussed. Emotion regulating capacities of the infant are reviewed in light of both early intervention and late…
Home visiting
Early Head Start
The authors review the significance of the research summarized in this special issue, including activities that contribute to successful university–community partnerships. The promise of Early Head Start (EHS) will be realized if investigators focus on moderators and mediators of program effects, program quality, and linkages between Early Head Start and community resources. Key factors that must be taken into account in the analysis of EHS progr…
Unraveling the Ecology of Risks for Early Childhood Asthma Among Ethnically Diverse Families in the Southwest
Objectives. We describe the prevalence of asthma risk factors within racial/ethnic and language groups of infants participating in an intervention study for reducing chronic asthma. Methods. Low-income children aged 9 to 24 months with 3 or more episodes of wheezing illness were enrolled. Baseline information included family and medical histories, allergic status, environmental exposures, emotional environment, and caregiver psychosocial resource…
Maternal Preconceptions About Parenting Predict Child Temperament, Maternal Sensitivity, and Children's Empathy
This study examined the influence of maternal preconceptions on child difficult temperament at 6 months and maternal sensitivity at 12-15 months and whether all 3 variables predicted children's empathy at 21-24 months. Within a low-income, ethnically diverse sample of 175 mother-child dyads, path models were tested with 3 empathy indices (prosocial, indifference, inquisitive) as outcomes. Results indicated that maternal preconceptions significant…
Developmental Trends in Self‐regulation among Low‐income Toddlers
The attainment of self‐regulatory skills during the toddler years is an understudied issue, especially among low‐income children. The present study used growth modeling to examine the change over time and the final status in children's abilities to self‐regulate, in a sample of 2,441 low‐income children aged 14 to 36 months. Positive growth in their self‐regulation occurred between 14 and 36 months, but individual variation was observed in both t…
The developmental origins of a disposition toward empathy
The authors investigated the development of a disposition toward empathy and its genetic and environmental origins. Young twins' (N = 409 pairs) cognitive (hypothesis testing) and affective (empathic concern) empathy and prosocial behavior in response to simulated pain by mothers and examiners were observed at multiple time points. Children's mean level of empathy and prosociality increased from 14 to 36 months. Positive concurrent and longitudin…
Relational and Individual Resources as Predictors of Empathy in Early Childhood
The goal of this study was to examine children's cognitive and language development and social engagement of mother as mediators of the relationship between maternal emotional availability at 15 months and children's empathy at the ages of two and four. Participants were 661 low‐income, ethnically diverse mother‐child dyads participating in a trial of home visitation in the Denver area. Using home‐ and lab‐based free‐play episodes, mothers' emoti…
Mothers’ Resolution of Their Young Children’s Psychiatric Diagnoses
Developmental trajectories in toddlers' self-restraint predict individual differences in executive functions 14 years later
We examined whether self-restraint in early childhood predicted individual differences in 3 executive functions (EFs; inhibiting prepotent responses, updating working memory, and shifting task sets) in late adolescence in a sample of approximately 950 twins. At ages 14, 20, 24, and 36 months, the children were shown an attractive toy and told not to touch it for 30 s. Latency to touch the toy increased with age, and latent class growth modeling d…
Do Young Children's Representations of Discipline and Empathy Moderate the Effects of Punishment on Emotion Regulation
This study examined whether children's representations of parenting (perceptions of authoritative discipline and empathy) moderated the association between harsh punishment—including corporal punishment (CP) and verbal punishment (VP)—and children's emotion regulation at the age of five years. Participants were 559 low‐income mother‐child dyads. Maternal self‐reports and home observations were used to measure punishment. Children's representation…
Is Reflective Supervision Enough? An Exploration of Workforce Perspectives
Infant mental health practice requires the performance of intense emotional labor. Professionals comprising the infant mental health (IMH) field are largely women at seminal points in adult life‐span development. The purpose of this article is to explore the day‐to‐day challenges faced by clinical infant mental health professionals and their perspectives on the supports available for effective job performance. We review reflective supervision as …
Low-income children’s readiness for group-based learning at age 3 and prekindergarten outcomes at age 5
Although 3-year-olds in the United States may attend prekindergarten prior to formal school entry in kindergarten, few investigations focus on the socioemotional foundations of classroom learning at age 3 and their relationship to later achievement. This study examined the relationship between age 3 readiness for group-based learning, modeled as the latent constructs, effortful control and social communication, and age 5 classroom adjustment and …
Beyond overwhelmed
The Professional Is the Personal
Infant mental health (IMH) as an interdisciplinary field relies on relationships to heal past trauma and promote secure parent-infant attachment. Stress related to performing IMH work has gained more attention in workforce development/well-being literature. Yet, IMH workforce engagement in self-care practices to manage work stress is left unexplored. This qualitative investigation examines a purposive sample (N = 21) of clinical IMH practitioners…
Professional quality of life in home visitors
Infant and early childhood home visiting models are gaining prominence as effective programs for families. Most U.S. state infant mental health associations (IMHAs) recommend reflective supervision (RS) and Infant Mental Health (IMH‐E ® ) Endorsement ® as components of home visitor professional development. These efforts may promote workforce professional quality of life. It is unknown whether a workplace policy to provide RS improves the likelih…
Psychology (19 works) · Developmental psychology (17 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (15 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (6 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)