Molly E Hale

Biographic Data

ID5714258
NAMEMolly E Hale
GIVEN NAMESMolly E
FAMILY NAMEHale
SIGNATUREHALE M E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Georgia
ORCID0000-0002-1463-2637
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Adolescent Friend Emotion Socialization: Does It Matter Which Emotion You Feel?

    Open AccessMolly E Hale, Janice Zeman et al.ARTICLESocial Development2026

    During adolescence, the increased centrality of friendships results in more opportunities for friends to socialize one another's emotions. However, little is known about the expectations adolescents have about their friend's responses to their emotions, which may provide insights into emotion expression norms within friendships. Adolescent emotion socialization responses (i.e., reward, override, magnify, neglect, and punish) were evaluated for sa…

  • The Cultural Context of Sleep Behaviors in Latino/a Parents and Their Preschool-aged Children

    Open AccessMolly E Hale, Andrea M George et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2026

    Sleep disparities have been documented in Latino populations broadly, but less is known about sleep behaviors in Latino/a parents and their preschool-aged children. Sleep underlies psychological and physical health across the lifespan, and sleep behaviors early in development are foundational. No extant studies have examined Latino/a parents’ and their preschool-aged children’s sleep behaviors within the same study, despite high levels of child d…

  • Mother–Child Inter‐ and Intra‐personal Affect Is Associated With Dynamic Trajectories of Physiological Self‐Regulation in Black and Latinx Youth

    Open AccessMolly E Hale, Kayley E Morrow et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychobiology2025References: 83

    Inter‐ and intrapersonal affect (IIPA; mother–child warm emotional exchange and individual expressions of positive affect) supports adaptive child self‐regulation in Black and Latinx families but has yet to be assessed in relation to youth's respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). Contextual stressors (income, internalizing symptoms) can undermine Black and Latinx children's RSA regulation. Using a self‐regulation promotion framework, this study exam…

  • Parent emotional support alters the association between parent–child interbrain synchrony and interaction quality

    Open AccessJianjie Xu, Sihan Liu et al.ARTICLEChild Development2025References: 54

    Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) hyperscanning methodology, this study investigated whether parent emotional support moderated the relation between parent–child interbrain synchrony and interaction quality (via behavioral observation and child-report), controlling for individual emotional distress. Eighty-eight parent–child dyads (96.6% Han ethnicity), including a school-age child between the ages of 6 and 11 (M age = 8.07 year…

  • Peer Stress Spills Over to Family Stress in the Context of Emotion Regulation Difficulties: A Daily Diary Study with Chinese Adolescents

    Open AccessHui Wang, Yutong Zhang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2024Cited by: 1References: 45

    Conflict in peer and family relationships becomes more common in the adolescent period when compared to previous developmental periods. These typical developmental challenges can be exacerbated in the context of poor emotion regulation skills. Using daily diary data, the current study examined the stress spillover effects of peer and family stress on one another, as well as the moderating role of emotion regulation challenges (i.e., emotional inh…

  • Adolescent emotion regulation trajectories: The influence of parent and friend emotion socialization

    Open AccessMolly E Hale, Natalee N Price et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2023Cited by: 5References: 7

    With mounting evidence demonstrating the link between child emotion regulation (ER) and emotion socialization, we conducted a longitudinal study to understand (a) emotion-specific trajectories of adolescent ER and (b) how specific parent and friend emotion socialization strategies impact ER over 4 years. Participants were 209 adolescents (52.5% girls; M age = 12.66 years; 75.7% White) and their parents. Latent growth curve models identified uniqu…

  • Relations among family, peer, and academic stress and adjustment in Chinese adolescents: A daily diary analysis

    Jianjie Xu, Hui Wang et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2023Cited by: 7

    Family, peers, and academics are three central sources of stress for Chinese adolescents, which have potential negative implications for youth's adjustment. This study investigated how within-person fluctuations in daily domains of stress (i.e., family, peer, and academic) and between-person differences in average stress levels were associated with four Chinese adolescent adjustment indicators (i.e., positive and negative emotions, sleep quality,…