Anna Sroka

Biographic Data

ID5722252
NAMEAnna Sroka
GIVEN NAMESAnna
FAMILY NAMESroka
SIGNATURESROKA A
AFFILIATIONSNorthwestern University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Chicago Illinois USA
ORCID0000-0002-2407-4261
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • The Impacts of Stress and Support on Early Childhood Educators’ Emotion-Focused Teaching Practices

    Open AccessMargaret Meldrum, Jaclyn Russo et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Education Journal2026

    Early childhood education (ECE) settings are key contexts through which young children develop foundational social and emotional skills. ECE educators play a critical role in this process by teaching children about emotions through emotion-focused teaching (EFT). As well, positive teacher-child relationships are associated with better developmental outcomes for children. However, educators’ own wellbeing can impact the extent to which they are ab…

  • Meeting the Relational and Developmental Needs of Young Children Exposed to Potentially Traumatic Events Through Trauma-Informed Care

    Margaret Meldrum, Karen R Gouze et al.ARTICLEEarly Education and Development2025

    This study examined the acceptability, feasibility, satisfaction, and preliminary effectiveness of the Ready to Learn Through Relationships (RLR) Program, a culturally-attuned and developmentally appropriate program designed to facilitate universal integration of trauma-informed care (TIC) in early childhood education (ECE) settings. Pre- and post-intervention surveys were administered to assess ECE professionals’ TIC knowledge, beliefs, and prac…

  • Pediatric Heart Rate Variability During Play and Neurocognitive Testing

    Open AccessTony H Liu, Tony Liu et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychobiology2025References: 87

    Parent‐child play is crucial in shaping child development, where play also facilitates autonomic nervous system integration. However, less is known about how parental perceptions of play impact childhood autonomic profiles, which have been associated with enhanced feelings of safety, responsiveness, comfort, and improved learning. This study recorded heart rate variability (HRV) among a sample of young children aged 3–7 years old ( N = 45; 42% gi…

  • Maternal socialization of emotion and the development of emotion regulation in early adolescent girls

    Open AccessJohnny Berona, Anna W Sroka et al.ARTICLEEmotion2022

    Regulation of negative emotions is a core competency of child development. Parental emotion socialization profoundly influences later capacity to regulate negative affect in childhood and adolescence. The present study examined the effects of maternal emotion socialization on the development of emotion regulation in the context of a longitudinal study of 210 mother-daughter dyads. Dyads completed a conflict resolution task when the child was age …

  • Delicious and difficult to resist

    Open AccessAmy M Heard, Amy H Egbert et al.ARTICLEAppetite2022References: 43

  • Radicalism and Terrorism in the 21st Century

    Anna Sroka, Fanny Castro-Rial Garrone et al.EDITORBOOKRadicalism and Terrorism in the…2016

    This book addresses the issues of radicalism and terrorism, which are of exceptional importance and relevance in contemporary society. Each of the two phenomena are analyzed from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book contains articles which explore legal, political, psychological, economic and social aspects of radicalism and terrorism. A portion of the contributions are of a theoretical nature, they constitute an attempt at constructing anal…