Bharathi J Zvara
Biographic Data
| ID | 5722472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bharathi J Zvara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bharathi J |
| FAMILY NAME | Zvara |
| SIGNATURE | ZVARA B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6254-7920 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Infant 6‐Month Psychophysiology During Interaction With Mother Is Differentiated by 12‐Month Attachment Quality
Infant–mother attachment relationships play a crucial role in shaping children's psychological and physiological well‐being. This study examined whether attachment quality at 12 months is associated with infant psychophysiological responses to mild stress at 6 months. Participants were 222 ethnically and socioeconomically diverse mother–infant dyads followed from the third trimester of pregnancy through the infant's first year. At 6 months, dyads…
Association between maternal closeness with parents and mother–toddler relationship quality
Identifying Facilitators and Barriers to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Visitation in Mothers of Low Socioeconomic Status
Hospitals can support families with infants in an NICU by providing free or inexpensive short-term sibling support, alleviating the burden of parking costs, and communicating early and frequently about available institutional resources during the hospital stay
Self-Compassion and Depressive Symptoms as Determinants of Sensitive Parenting
Parenting that is sensitive and responsive to children's needs has been shown to support children's optimal growth and development in many cultural contexts. Numerous studies suggest that self-compassion is positively related to sensitive parenting. Despite growing research interest linking self-compassion to responsive parenting, there are considerable gaps in the literature. The current study examined the associations between self-compassion, d…
A mixed methods analysis of environmental and household chaos
Chaos represents a complex construct with implications spanning various disciplines, including childhood obesity research. Previous studies suggest challenges associated with measuring chaos may limit the conclusions that can be drawn about which aspect of chaos (if any) matter most of early childhood weight development. We advance the literature by demonstrating chaos may be comprised of conceptually distinct subdomains. Future childhood obesity…
Maternal and Paternal Attachment Style and Chaos as Risk Factors for Parenting Behavior
Objective and Background Household chaos and insecure parental attachment styles are associated with lower quality parenting behaviors. However, there is a paucity of evidence regarding fathers' parenting behaviors, and no studies examine whether chaotic home environments moderate the attachment style–parenting behavior relationship. Method Using data from both mothers and fathers of 742 children (40.5% African American) living in rural, low‐reso…
Parent Self‐Compassion and Supportive Responses to Child Difficult Emotion
Self-compassion is an adaptive way of self-relating that entails tending to one's emotional pain with understanding and care. In this paper, we propose an intergenerational model explaining how self-compassion develops within the context of the parent-child relationship. Specifically, we posit that parents who have had supportive experiences with their own childhood caregivers develop a secure attachment and a high level of self-compassion. In tu…
Associations between parenting behavior and executive function among preschool-aged children born very preterm
Mother–child role confusion, child adjustment problems, and the moderating roles of child temperament and sex
Role confusion is a deviation in the parent-child relationship such that a parent looks to a child to meet the parent's emotional needs and abdicates, in part, the parental role in exchange for care, intimacy, or peer support from the child. In addition, a child may initiate role-confused behavior in order to gain closeness to a parent who is otherwise preoccupied by his or her own needs. The current study examined associations between mother-chi…
Maternal Childhood Sexual Trauma, Child Directed Aggression, Parenting Behavior, and the Moderating Role of Child Sex
Maternal Childhood Sexual Trauma and Child Conduct Problems
Parenting and children’s representations of family predict disruptive and callous-unemotional behaviors
Data from a large prospective longitudinal study (n = 1,239) was used to investigate the association between observed sensitive parenting in early childhood and children's representations of family relationships as measured by the Family Drawing Paradigm (FDP) in first grade as well as the extent to which these representations partially mediate the influences of early caregiving experiences on later conduct problems and callous-unemotional behavi…
Mother–child role confusion, child adjustment problems, and the moderating roles of child temperament and sex
Role confusion is a deviation in the parent-child relationship such that a parent looks to a child to meet the parent's emotional needs and abdicates, in part, the parental role in exchange for care, intimacy, or peer support from the child. In addition, a child may initiate role-confused behavior in order to gain closeness to a parent who is otherwise preoccupied by his or her own needs. The current study examined associations between mother-chi…
Parenting and children’s representations of family predict disruptive and callous-unemotional behaviors
Data from a large prospective longitudinal study (n = 1,239) was used to investigate the association between observed sensitive parenting in early childhood and children's representations of family relationships as measured by the Family Drawing Paradigm (FDP) in first grade as well as the extent to which these representations partially mediate the influences of early caregiving experiences on later conduct problems and callous-unemotional behavi…
Parent Self‐Compassion and Supportive Responses to Child Difficult Emotion
Self-compassion is an adaptive way of self-relating that entails tending to one's emotional pain with understanding and care. In this paper, we propose an intergenerational model explaining how self-compassion develops within the context of the parent-child relationship. Specifically, we posit that parents who have had supportive experiences with their own childhood caregivers develop a secure attachment and a high level of self-compassion. In tu…
Parenting and children’s representations of family predict disruptive and callous-unemotional behaviors
Data from a large prospective longitudinal study (n = 1,239) was used to investigate the association between observed sensitive parenting in early childhood and children's representations of family relationships as measured by the Family Drawing Paradigm (FDP) in first grade as well as the extent to which these representations partially mediate the influences of early caregiving experiences on later conduct problems and callous-unemotional behavi…
Maternal Childhood Sexual Trauma, Child Directed Aggression, Parenting Behavior, and the Moderating Role of Child Sex
Maternal Childhood Sexual Trauma and Child Conduct Problems
Mother–child role confusion, child adjustment problems, and the moderating roles of child temperament and sex
Role confusion is a deviation in the parent-child relationship such that a parent looks to a child to meet the parent's emotional needs and abdicates, in part, the parental role in exchange for care, intimacy, or peer support from the child. In addition, a child may initiate role-confused behavior in order to gain closeness to a parent who is otherwise preoccupied by his or her own needs. The current study examined associations between mother-chi…
Associations between parenting behavior and executive function among preschool-aged children born very preterm
Maternal and Paternal Attachment Style and Chaos as Risk Factors for Parenting Behavior
Objective and Background Household chaos and insecure parental attachment styles are associated with lower quality parenting behaviors. However, there is a paucity of evidence regarding fathers' parenting behaviors, and no studies examine whether chaotic home environments moderate the attachment style–parenting behavior relationship. Method Using data from both mothers and fathers of 742 children (40.5% African American) living in rural, low‐reso…
Parent Self‐Compassion and Supportive Responses to Child Difficult Emotion
Self-compassion is an adaptive way of self-relating that entails tending to one's emotional pain with understanding and care. In this paper, we propose an intergenerational model explaining how self-compassion develops within the context of the parent-child relationship. Specifically, we posit that parents who have had supportive experiences with their own childhood caregivers develop a secure attachment and a high level of self-compassion. In tu…
A mixed methods analysis of environmental and household chaos
Chaos represents a complex construct with implications spanning various disciplines, including childhood obesity research. Previous studies suggest challenges associated with measuring chaos may limit the conclusions that can be drawn about which aspect of chaos (if any) matter most of early childhood weight development. We advance the literature by demonstrating chaos may be comprised of conceptually distinct subdomains. Future childhood obesity…
Self-Compassion and Depressive Symptoms as Determinants of Sensitive Parenting
Parenting that is sensitive and responsive to children's needs has been shown to support children's optimal growth and development in many cultural contexts. Numerous studies suggest that self-compassion is positively related to sensitive parenting. Despite growing research interest linking self-compassion to responsive parenting, there are considerable gaps in the literature. The current study examined the associations between self-compassion, d…
Association between maternal closeness with parents and mother–toddler relationship quality
Identifying Facilitators and Barriers to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Visitation in Mothers of Low Socioeconomic Status
Hospitals can support families with infants in an NICU by providing free or inexpensive short-term sibling support, alleviating the burden of parking costs, and communicating early and frequently about available institutional resources during the hospital stay
Infant 6‐Month Psychophysiology During Interaction With Mother Is Differentiated by 12‐Month Attachment Quality
Infant–mother attachment relationships play a crucial role in shaping children's psychological and physiological well‐being. This study examined whether attachment quality at 12 months is associated with infant psychophysiological responses to mild stress at 6 months. Participants were 222 ethnically and socioeconomically diverse mother–infant dyads followed from the third trimester of pregnancy through the infant's first year. At 6 months, dyads…
Psychology (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (3 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (2 works)