Margaret T Owen

Biographic Data

ID5759934
NAMEMargaret T Owen
GIVEN NAMESMargaret T
FAMILY NAMEOwen
SIGNATUREOWEN M T
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Psychological Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS61
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • “The Talk” and Parenting While Black in America

    Open AccessLois Ann Anderson, Margaret O''Brien Caughy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Psychology2022

    “The Talk” refers to a specific type of racial socialization message that many Black parents have with their children about how to safely conduct themselves when interacting with police officers and other individuals in positions of power. With the recent increased exposure of racialized violence against Black people at the hands of police and vigilantes in the United States, many parents of young Black children now feel especially compelled to i…

  • Too Early for Early Education? Effects on Parenting for Mothers and Fathers

    Open AccessH D Zachrisson, Margaret Tresch Owens et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2021

    Objective To estimate the effect of children's age of entry into early childhood education and care (ECEC) on parenting quality of mothers and fathers in a context of universal access to subsidized ECEC following a 1 year paid parental leave. Background Children entering non‐parental care settings in early childhood may have negative consequences for parenting quality. Yet, current evidence supporting this claim is predominantly from the United S…

  • Early child care experiences and attachment representations at age 18 years

    Open AccessTheodore E A Waters, Sophia W Magro et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2021Cited by: 1References: 8

    The role of early child care experiences on the development of the mother-child attachment relationship has been studied extensively. However, no prospective studies of early child care have addressed how these experiences might be reflected in the content of attachment representations during adolescence and beyond. The goal of this study was to estimate relatively precise associations between child care quality, child care quantity, and type of …

  • Behavioral Self‐Regulation, Early Academic Achievement, and the Effectiveness of Urban Schools for Low‐Income Ethnic Minority Children

    Open AccessMargaret O''Brien Caughy, Britain A Mills et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Community…2018Cited by: 2References: 64

    The independent and joint associations between child behavioral self‐regulation ability and school effectiveness in relation to academic achievement were examined in a sample of low‐income African American ( n = 132) and Latino ( n = 198) children attending kindergarten and first grade across a large metropolitan area. Child behavioral self‐regulation and school effectiveness were positively associated with both reading and mathematics performanc…

  • Testing a series of causal propositions relating time in child care to children’s externalizing behavior

    Kathleen Mccartney, Margaret Burchinal et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2010Cited by: 26References: 7

    Prior research has documented associations between hours in child care and children's externalizing behavior. A series of longitudinal analyses were conducted to address 5 propositions, each testing the hypothesis that child care hours causes externalizing behavior. Data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Early Child Care Research Network (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development were used in this inve…

  • Prediction of infant-father and infant-mother attachment

    Martha J Cox, Margaret Tresch Owens et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology1992Cited by: 28References: 3

    The Ist‐year correlates of infant–father and infant–mother attachment were investigated in a longitudinal study of early family development. Mothers and fathers were observed interacting with their firstborn, 3‐month‐old infants. Parents also were interviewed individually at 3 months child age concerning their time with the infant and their attitudes and reports about the infant and their parental role. Mothers and fathers were seen in the strang…

  • Prediction of infant^father and infant^mother attachment

    Martha J Cox, Margaret Tresch Owens et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology1992Cited by: 1

  • Intergenerational Influences on the Parent-Infant Relationship in the Transition to Parenthood

    Open AccessMartha J Cox, Margaret Tresch Owens et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues1985Cited by: 3References: 15

    In this study, questions were addressed concerning the intergenerational transmission of parent-child relationships in couples going through the transition to parenthood. During the second trimester of their first pregnancy, couples provided information concerning experiences of parenting in their family of origin, then were reinterviewed and observed interacting with their infants at 3 months postpartum. It was expected that when these young adu…