Joan L Luby
Biographic Data
| ID | 5761102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan L Luby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan L |
| FAMILY NAME | Luby |
| SIGNATURE | LUBY J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5352-1721 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Engaging With Mature Media Content Is Linked to Depression and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Childhood and Early Adolescents
Rises in adolescent media use have paralleled increases in youth major depressive disorder (MDD) and suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs). Studies linking screen time and decreased mental health focus on older adolescents and overlook media content. This study examined how frequency and content of media related to MDD and STBs in children and early adolescents enriched for psychopathology. Youth ages 8-12 ( N = 191; M age = 10.13) completed cli…
Reward motives are differentially related to depression, anxiety, and ADHD symptoms in middle childhood
Deviations in reward anticipation and response are associated with internalizing and externalizing disorders. However, relationships between different types of reward motivations and psychopathology have been less explored. We examine how preferences for absolute (gaining points) and relative (gaining more points than others) rewards relate to psychopathological symptoms in middle childhood. A community sample ( N = 133 6- to 9-year-olds) was ass…
Prevalence and characteristics of infants’ prosocial helping strategies between 11 and 20 months of age
Although limited research suggests that infants can behave prosocially even before their first birthdays, the prevalence and characteristics of early prosocial behaviors remain unexplored. Indeed, very few studies of prosocial development have included 12-month-old infants or examined how prosociality changes across the second year, and none has assessed individual differences in prosocial strategy use. This study investigated prosocial helping b…
Childhood behavioral inhibition and overcontrol
Behavioral inhibition (BI), a temperamental trait; the error-related negativity (ERN), a marker of performance monitoring measured via electroencephalogram; and overcontrol, a phenotype characterized by perfectionism and inflexibility, all show associations with childhood anxiety, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and social functioning. However, the independent and combined risk for psychiatric and social functioning of these factors is unknown. Th…
Less attention to emotional faces is associated with low empathy and prosociality in 12‐to 20‐month old infants
The development of empathy and prosocial behavior begins in infancy and is likely supported by emotion processing skills. The current study explored whether early emerging deficits in emotion processing are associated with disruptions in the development of empathy and prosociality. We investigated this question in a large, diverse sample of 147, 11‐ to 20‐month‐old infants (42% female; 61% Black; 67% low socioeconomic status). Infants completed t…
Early Emotion Development Intervention Improves Mental Health Outcomes in Low-Income, High-Risk Community Children
Maternal prenatal social disadvantage and neonatal functional connectivity
Recent research has reported effects of socioeconomic status on neurobehavioral development as early as infancy, including positive associations between income and brain structure, functional connectivity, and behavior later in childhood (Ramphal, Whalen, et al., 2020; Triplett et al., 2022). This study extends this literature by investigating the relation of maternal prenatal social disadvantage (PSD) to neonatal amygdala and hippocampus functio…
Neonatal neural responses to novelty related to behavioral inhibition at 1 year
Behavioral inhibition (BI), an early-life temperament characterized by vigilant responses to novelty, is a risk factor for anxiety disorders. In this study, we investigated whether differences in neonatal brain responses to infrequent auditory stimuli relate to children's BI at 1 year of age. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we collected blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) data from N = 45 full-term, sleeping neonates during an…
Using a thin slice coding approach to assess preschool overweight and obesity
Childhood emotion dysregulation mediates the relationship between preschool emotion labeling and adolescent depressive symptoms
Deficits in emotion processing (e.g., emotion labeling and regulation) are widely implicated in depression risk. While prior literature documents these deficits in concurrence with depression, more research is needed to investigate emotion processing pathways of depression risk across development. The purpose of this study was to investigate if emotion processes (i.e., emotion labeling and emotion regulation/dysregulation) in early and middle chi…
Observations of Positive Parenting from Online Parent–Child Interactions at Age 1
PCIRS may provide a reliable approach to rate positive parenting at age 1, providing future avenues for developing more ecologically valid assessments and implementing interventions through online encounters that may be more acceptable, accessible, or preferred among parents of young children
Using a Thin Slice Coding Approach to Assess Preschool Personality Dimensions
A large literature assessing personality across the lifespan has used the Big Five as an organizing framework, with evidence that variation along different dimensions predicts aspects of psychopathology. Parent reports indicate that these dimensions emerge as early as preschool, but there is a need for objective, observational measures of personality in young children, as parent report can be confounded by the parents’ own personality and psychop…
Changes in self‐reported and observed parenting following a randomized control trial of parent–child interaction therapy for the treatment of preschool depression
BACKGROUND: Parenting in early childhood exerts substantial influence over children's emotional health and development. Using data from a randomized controlled trial of a novel treatment for early childhood depression, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Emotion Development (PCIT-ED), we explored two broad dimensions of parenting (behavior and affect) to determine whether any changes could be detected following treatment when compared to those in a …
Sad, Sadder, Saddest
The Overcontrol in Youth Checklist (Ocyc)
Emotion Identification in Preschool and Early Adolescent Body Mass Index
Early Adversity, Psychopathology, and Latent Class Profiles of Global Physical Health From Preschool Through Early Adolescence
These findings indicate the importance of early indicators of risk: low income-to-needs ratios, high psychosocial adversity, and psychiatric disorders occurring during the preschool period for contributing to increasing physical health problems from preschool through early adolescence. Early-onset psychiatric disorders also mediated relations between psychosocial adversity, income-to-needs ratio, and physical health problems
Do losses loom larger for children than adults
The large impact of loss of reward on behavior has been well documented in adult populations. However, whether responsiveness to loss relative to gain is similarly elevated in child versus adult populations remains unclear. It is also unclear whether relations between incentive behaviors and self-reported reward/punishment sensitivity are similar within different developmental stages. To investigate these questions, 7- to 10-year-old children (N …
The Effects of Poverty on Childhood Brain Development
IMPORTANCE The study provides novel data to inform the mechanisms by which poverty negatively impacts childhood brain development. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the income-to-needs ratio experienced in early childhood impacts brain development at school age and to explore the mediators of this effect. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This study was conducted at an academic research unit at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Lo…
Parental warmth and risks of substance use in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Longitudinal study findings suggest that in addition to the established risk of ADHD and maternal SUD in development of child SUD, low paternal warmth is also associated with onset of SUD. This was evident after controlling for pertinent parent and child psychopathology. These findings suggest that paternal warmth warrants further investigation as a key target for novel interventions to prevent SUD in children with ADHD. More focused investigatio…
Depressive‐symptom onset during toddlerhood in a sample of depressed preschoolers
This study investigated the occurrence of depressive symptoms prior to age 36 months as retrospectively reported by parents of preschoolers with clinical depression. The study provides some of the first empirical data on the manifestations of depressive symptoms during the toddler period, advancing existing theoretical and case‐report literature. A sample of 301 (depressed, disruptive, and healthy) children between the ages of 3.0 and 6.0 years w…
Preschoolers’ Contribution to their Diagnosis of Depression and Anxiety
The Junior Temperament and Character Inventory
The Junior Temperament and Character Inventory
A preliminary effort to validate the Junior Temperament and Character Inventory with a convenience sample of 322 children ages 9 to 12 years is described
Characteristics of an infant/preschool psychiatric clinic sample
The purpose of this study was to describe the methods of clinical assessment in an academic infant/preschool subspecialty clinic and to investigate the psychosocial demographic and diagnostic characteristics of this outpatient population. The clinic charts of 120 patients seen by the clinic director (first author) and second-year child psychiatry fellows were reviewed for data entry and analysis. Patients and their primary caretakers had undergon…
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Concordance of parent-child temperament ratings in a clinical sample of adolescent girls
Characteristics of an infant/preschool psychiatric clinic sample
The purpose of this study was to describe the methods of clinical assessment in an academic infant/preschool subspecialty clinic and to investigate the psychosocial demographic and diagnostic characteristics of this outpatient population. The clinic charts of 120 patients seen by the clinic director (first author) and second-year child psychiatry fellows were reviewed for data entry and analysis. Patients and their primary caretakers had undergon…
The Junior Temperament and Character Inventory
The Junior Temperament and Character Inventory
A preliminary effort to validate the Junior Temperament and Character Inventory with a convenience sample of 322 children ages 9 to 12 years is described
Preschoolers’ Contribution to their Diagnosis of Depression and Anxiety
Depressive‐symptom onset during toddlerhood in a sample of depressed preschoolers
This study investigated the occurrence of depressive symptoms prior to age 36 months as retrospectively reported by parents of preschoolers with clinical depression. The study provides some of the first empirical data on the manifestations of depressive symptoms during the toddler period, advancing existing theoretical and case‐report literature. A sample of 301 (depressed, disruptive, and healthy) children between the ages of 3.0 and 6.0 years w…
The Effects of Poverty on Childhood Brain Development
IMPORTANCE The study provides novel data to inform the mechanisms by which poverty negatively impacts childhood brain development. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the income-to-needs ratio experienced in early childhood impacts brain development at school age and to explore the mediators of this effect. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This study was conducted at an academic research unit at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Lo…
Parental warmth and risks of substance use in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Longitudinal study findings suggest that in addition to the established risk of ADHD and maternal SUD in development of child SUD, low paternal warmth is also associated with onset of SUD. This was evident after controlling for pertinent parent and child psychopathology. These findings suggest that paternal warmth warrants further investigation as a key target for novel interventions to prevent SUD in children with ADHD. More focused investigatio…
Do losses loom larger for children than adults
The large impact of loss of reward on behavior has been well documented in adult populations. However, whether responsiveness to loss relative to gain is similarly elevated in child versus adult populations remains unclear. It is also unclear whether relations between incentive behaviors and self-reported reward/punishment sensitivity are similar within different developmental stages. To investigate these questions, 7- to 10-year-old children (N …
Early Adversity, Psychopathology, and Latent Class Profiles of Global Physical Health From Preschool Through Early Adolescence
These findings indicate the importance of early indicators of risk: low income-to-needs ratios, high psychosocial adversity, and psychiatric disorders occurring during the preschool period for contributing to increasing physical health problems from preschool through early adolescence. Early-onset psychiatric disorders also mediated relations between psychosocial adversity, income-to-needs ratio, and physical health problems
The Overcontrol in Youth Checklist (Ocyc)
Emotion Identification in Preschool and Early Adolescent Body Mass Index
Using a Thin Slice Coding Approach to Assess Preschool Personality Dimensions
A large literature assessing personality across the lifespan has used the Big Five as an organizing framework, with evidence that variation along different dimensions predicts aspects of psychopathology. Parent reports indicate that these dimensions emerge as early as preschool, but there is a need for objective, observational measures of personality in young children, as parent report can be confounded by the parents’ own personality and psychop…
Changes in self‐reported and observed parenting following a randomized control trial of parent–child interaction therapy for the treatment of preschool depression
BACKGROUND: Parenting in early childhood exerts substantial influence over children's emotional health and development. Using data from a randomized controlled trial of a novel treatment for early childhood depression, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Emotion Development (PCIT-ED), we explored two broad dimensions of parenting (behavior and affect) to determine whether any changes could be detected following treatment when compared to those in a …
Sad, Sadder, Saddest
Using a thin slice coding approach to assess preschool overweight and obesity
Childhood emotion dysregulation mediates the relationship between preschool emotion labeling and adolescent depressive symptoms
Deficits in emotion processing (e.g., emotion labeling and regulation) are widely implicated in depression risk. While prior literature documents these deficits in concurrence with depression, more research is needed to investigate emotion processing pathways of depression risk across development. The purpose of this study was to investigate if emotion processes (i.e., emotion labeling and emotion regulation/dysregulation) in early and middle chi…
Observations of Positive Parenting from Online Parent–Child Interactions at Age 1
PCIRS may provide a reliable approach to rate positive parenting at age 1, providing future avenues for developing more ecologically valid assessments and implementing interventions through online encounters that may be more acceptable, accessible, or preferred among parents of young children
Less attention to emotional faces is associated with low empathy and prosociality in 12‐to 20‐month old infants
The development of empathy and prosocial behavior begins in infancy and is likely supported by emotion processing skills. The current study explored whether early emerging deficits in emotion processing are associated with disruptions in the development of empathy and prosociality. We investigated this question in a large, diverse sample of 147, 11‐ to 20‐month‐old infants (42% female; 61% Black; 67% low socioeconomic status). Infants completed t…
Early Emotion Development Intervention Improves Mental Health Outcomes in Low-Income, High-Risk Community Children
Maternal prenatal social disadvantage and neonatal functional connectivity
Recent research has reported effects of socioeconomic status on neurobehavioral development as early as infancy, including positive associations between income and brain structure, functional connectivity, and behavior later in childhood (Ramphal, Whalen, et al., 2020; Triplett et al., 2022). This study extends this literature by investigating the relation of maternal prenatal social disadvantage (PSD) to neonatal amygdala and hippocampus functio…
Neonatal neural responses to novelty related to behavioral inhibition at 1 year
Behavioral inhibition (BI), an early-life temperament characterized by vigilant responses to novelty, is a risk factor for anxiety disorders. In this study, we investigated whether differences in neonatal brain responses to infrequent auditory stimuli relate to children's BI at 1 year of age. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we collected blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) data from N = 45 full-term, sleeping neonates during an…
Reward motives are differentially related to depression, anxiety, and ADHD symptoms in middle childhood
Deviations in reward anticipation and response are associated with internalizing and externalizing disorders. However, relationships between different types of reward motivations and psychopathology have been less explored. We examine how preferences for absolute (gaining points) and relative (gaining more points than others) rewards relate to psychopathological symptoms in middle childhood. A community sample ( N = 133 6- to 9-year-olds) was ass…
Prevalence and characteristics of infants’ prosocial helping strategies between 11 and 20 months of age
Although limited research suggests that infants can behave prosocially even before their first birthdays, the prevalence and characteristics of early prosocial behaviors remain unexplored. Indeed, very few studies of prosocial development have included 12-month-old infants or examined how prosociality changes across the second year, and none has assessed individual differences in prosocial strategy use. This study investigated prosocial helping b…
Childhood behavioral inhibition and overcontrol
Behavioral inhibition (BI), a temperamental trait; the error-related negativity (ERN), a marker of performance monitoring measured via electroencephalogram; and overcontrol, a phenotype characterized by perfectionism and inflexibility, all show associations with childhood anxiety, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and social functioning. However, the independent and combined risk for psychiatric and social functioning of these factors is unknown. Th…
Psychology (22 works) · Developmental psychology (21 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (19 works) · Clinical Psychology (18 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Psychopathology (8 works) · Anxiety (5 works) · Cognition (5 works)