Kathryn A Kerns
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 650298 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kathryn A Kerns |
| NOMBRES | Kathryn A |
| APELLIDO | Kerns |
| FIRMA | KERNS K A |
| AFILIACIONES | Kent State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9579-0188 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 226 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Preadolescents’ Perceptions of Parental Emotion Socialization Responses to Positive Emotions
Emotion socialization (ES) has been studied primarily in the context of children’s negative emotions. We evaluated whether 1) mothers and fathers are similar in their ES (savoring and dampening) of positive emotions; and 2) maternal and paternal ES are differentially related to preadolescents’ psychosocial adjustment and attachment security. Preadolescents ( N = 106; age M ( SD ) = 11.68 (1.03) years; 52 boys) reported parental ES, self-worth, an…
Early adolescents’ attachment security, parental emotion socialisation, and early adolescents’ emotion regulation of positive emotions
112, boys = 55) completed an attachment interview, rated their ER of PEs (savouring and dampening), and rated their parents' ES of PEs (savouring and dampening). Children who were more securely attached to their mothers and fathers used more savouring and less dampening of their PEs. Mothers' and fathers' savouring or dampening of PEs was associated with children's greater use of the corresponding strategy. Parents' ES strategies showed unique ef…
Assessing Safe Haven and Secure Base Support in Preadolescence
The 15‐item version of the Security Scale Questionnaire (SSQ), primarily capturing parent's safe haven support, is the most valid self‐report measure of attachment security for preadolescence. Recently, nine items assessing secure base support were added. This study aimed to further validate the 24‐item version of the SSQ by evaluating measurement invariance across three cultures, child gender and age, and mother‐child and father‐child relationsh…
Children’s experiences of positive affect with pet dogs
Experiences of positive affect (PA) are common when interacting with animals and may help to build resilience. This study explored how children’s relationships with pet dogs, parents, and friends are related to their experiences of PA with their pet dog. In addition, we examined whether greater PA with pet dogs was related to children’s thriving. The sample ( n = 115, 57 girls, 58 boys) included children 9–14 years of age who reported the quality…
Are children’s relationships with pet dogs uniquely related to children’s social and emotional competence and adjustment
Companion animals, including pet dogs, can be sources of support and potentially contribute to children’s competence and adjustment. The goal of this paper is to examine whether children’s pet dog relationships are related to their competence and adjustment after accounting for relationships with parents and friends and demographic factors. We distinguished three qualities of child-pet dog relationships – positive pet relationship qualities, fric…
Parent–Child Attachment and Dynamic Emotion Regulation
Although there is evidence parent–child attachment security is associated with trait-like emotion indices, trait perspectives do not fully capture children's responses to context, an important emotion regulation component. This paper evaluates whether attachment is associated with two dynamic emotion indicators: emotion reactivity and emotion recovery. We review conceptual and empirical connections, describe the dynamic emotion perspective, discu…
Attachment Figures among Donor-Conceived Children of Lesbian Mothers in Middle Childhood
Dynamics of attachment and emotion regulation in daily life
26.4) completed the Experiences in Close Relationship-Revised and reported state attachment and ER seven times daily for seven days. The results were only partly consistent with our cycle hypotheses yet revealed a cycle between low state attachment security and rumination that was attenuated by reappraisal. Moreover, rumination and suppression predicted increased insecure states, and reappraisal predicted increased secure and insecure states. Fin…
A Systematic Review of Representational and Behavioral Measures of Parent-Child Attachment Available for Middle Childhood
A variety of parent-child attachment measures, representing a range of conceptual approaches, have been adapted for use in middle childhood. A recent surge in studies using the new methods makes a comprehensive review of these measures timely. This systematic review of 67 studies covers representational and behavioral measures of parent-child attachment used with children 9–12 years old. This paper aims to evaluate parent-child attachment measure…
Parental emotion socialization
How parents approach and teach their children about emotions are key determinants of children's healthy adjustment (Denham, 2019). Parental emotion socialization has been mostly studied in parents of young children. Our study identified emotion socialization (ES) strategies used by parents of early adolescents (Study 1) and then examined the relations of ES strategies with early adolescent adjustment, parent-child attachment, and maternal depress…
Parent-Child Attachment Security and Depressive Symptoms in Early Adolescence
Assessing children's relationships with pet dogs
Relationships with pet dogs are thought to provide substantial benefits for children, but the study of these relationships has been hindered by a lack of validated measures. Approaches to assessing the quality of children's pet dog relationships have tended to focus on positive relationship qualities and to rely on self-report questionnaires. The aim of this study was to develop and test multiple measures that could be used to assess both positiv…
Validating the Negative Emotion Regulation Inventory Measure of Emotion Regulation for Children in Preadolescence
Emotion modulation is achieved through various strategies. We further validated a measure of emotion regulation (ER), the Negative Emotion Regulation Inventory (NERI), designed by Zimmermann and Iwanski (2014) to assess emotions and ER strategies in situations intended to induce sadness, fear, or anger. U.S. children 9–14 years old ( n = 105) completed an adapted version of the NERI and measures of anxiety symptoms and attachment security. We rep…
A literature review of gratitude, parent–child relationships, and well-being in children
Validating the Supervision Partnership as a Phase of Attachment
The goal of this study was to expand current attachment models by validating a three-component model of the supervision partnership conceptualization of attachment (accessibility and availability of attachment figures, willingness to communicate, and mutual recognition of other’s rights in decision-making). The model was tested by examining associations with parenting, friendship quality, other attachment measures, temperament, and IQ. In a sampl…
A Meta‐Analysis of Friendship Qualities and Romantic Relationship Outcomes in Adolescence
Romantic relationships are one of the most significant interpersonal ties in adolescence, thus understanding factors that may contribute to their formation and quality are important. The current meta‐analysis focuses on links between friendship quality and romantic relationship outcomes for adolescents up to 18 years. In a series of meta‐analyses ( k = 28 studies, N 's = 946–4,040), friendship qualities were not related to romantic involvement. H…
Parent–child attachment and children’s experience and regulation of emotion
Preadolescents’ relationships with pet dogs
Research on human-animal interaction in children has been studied in isolation rather than integrated with core theories of children's relationships. This study is one of the first to examine how children's relationships with pet dogs are related to their human relationships (parent-child attachments, friendships) and to child adjustment, and to include observational assessment of children's interactions with their pet dog. Children (9 to 11 year…
Pet dogs
Despite interest in human-animal interaction, few studies have tested whether the presence of a dog facilitates children's emotional responding. Preadolescents ( n = 99) were randomly assigned to complete the Trier Social Stress Test either with or without their pet dog. Children rated their positive and negative affect, and high frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) was assessed throughout the session. Children reported higher positive affec…
Perceptions of Parent-Child Attachment Relationships and Friendship Qualities
Seeking support in response to social and achievement stressors
Social support is the subject of much research, but comparatively little attention has been paid to support seeking. Moreover, what research exists on support seeking has primarily addressed in‐person support seeking, despite the proliferation of new support venues (e.g., Facebook, websites, etc.). This article uses a daily diary methodology to examine the support‐seeking behavior men ( N = 41) and women ( N = 97) exhibit in response to various t…
The Supervision Partnership as a Phase of Attachment
The supervision partnership in middle childhood was proposed by Waters, Kondo-Ikemura, Posada, and Richters as the last phase of parent-child attachment. The present study elaborates this concept by proposing three components of the supervision partnership: availability and accessibility, willingness to communicate, and mutual recognition of the other’s rights. Using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) S…
Mother–child attachment, emotion regulation, and anxiety symptoms in middle childhood
This study examined whether the relation of mother–child attachment with anxiety symptoms is mediated by emotion regulation (ER) processes (poor emotional awareness, biased interpretations of emotionally charged events, and coping strategies). Attachment patterns were assessed in a sample of eighty‐seven 10‐ to 12‐year‐olds using story‐stem interviews. Children who were less secure and more disorganized reported more anxiety. Attachment was also …
Pathways to Anxiety
Mother–child attachment and cognitive performance in middle childhood
Peer relationships and preadolescents' perceptions of security in the child-mother relationship
In 2 studies, peer relationships were related to children's perceptions of security in the child-mother relationship. In Study 1, a sample of 74 5th graders, children who viewed their relationship with their mother as more secure were significantly more accepted by peers, had more reciprocated friendships, and were less lonely than children who rated the relationship as less secure. In Study 2, a sample of 5th and 6th graders, 44 same-gender frie…
Attachment-based assessments of parent–child relationships in middle childhood
Although a number of measures have been developed to assess parent-child attachments, validity data on middle-childhood measures are lacking. The present study tested attachment-based measures of parent-child relationships designed for the later middle-childhood years (9-12 years of age). Self-reports from children assessed perceptions of security and avoidant and preoccupied coping. Some children also completed a projective interview assessing a…
Parent-child attachment in late adolescence
Attachment and Play
Two components of the parent-child relationship, attachment and play, are associated with peer competence, but have not been related to one another. This study examines: (a) linkages between attachment security and physical play interactions in mother-child and father-child dyads, and (b) linkages between these parenting components and peer competence. A total of 54 preschoolers (27 girls) participated with their mothers and fathers. Parents comp…
Perceptions of Sibling Qualities and Activities of Early Adolescents
The purpose for this study was to address the ways in which conflictual and positive relationship qualities in the sibling relationship differ at different grade levels during early adolescence. This question was addressed using a cross-sectional design with 170 early adolescents in fourth grade (n = 60), sixth grade (n = 44), and eighth grade (n = 66). Reports of the behaviors engaged in by children as well as their perceptions of conflictual an…
Normative Trends in Children's Perceptions of Availability and Utilization of Attachment Figures in Middle Childhood
Two studies addressed the normative aspects of attachments to mothers and fathers in middle childhood. Using both cross‐sectional and longitudinal comparisons, we tested the hypothesis that children show no changes in perceptions of availability of attachment figures across the later middle childhood years, but do utilize attachment figures less at older ages. The first study included a cross‐sectional comparison of third and sixth graders, and t…
A Longitudinal Examination of Links between Mother-Child Attachment and Children's Friendships in Early Childhood
A longitudinal study examined associations between child-mother attachment security and children's friendships at two points in early childhood. Comparisons of secure-secure and secure-insecure friend pairs revealed that the interactions of secure-secure pairs were more positive at age 4 and more positive and co-ordinated at age 5
Love and school
Two studies tested the hypothesis that secure attachment facilitates exploration at college. Also, these studies examined how types of insecure attachment differentially predict exploration. In Study 1, 200 undergraduates completed self-report measures of attachment and exploration. In Study 2, 69 undergraduates completed these same measures, and two tasks that measured exploratory behavior. Ratings of attachment styles were differentially relate…
Mother–child attachment and cognitive performance in middle childhood
Parent–Child Emotional Communication and Children's Coping in Middle Childhood
Parent–child communication regarding children's negative emotions and coping were examined in a sample of 75 5th graders (53% boys) and their mothers and fathers. We predicted that emotionally open communication between a parent and his or her child would be related to children's use of constructive coping strategies. Parents reported on how they react to their child's negative emotions, and children reported on how much they share their negative…
Perceptions of Parent-Child Attachment Relationships and Friendship Qualities
Social Organization in Preschool Classrooms
The purpose of this study was to examine age-related changes in preschoolers' affiliative groups. In this study, the peer group rather than the individual child was treated as the unit of analysis. Forty-seven 3-year-olds in four classes and 50 4-year-olds in four other classes were observed during free play. Observers recorded the person with whom each child interacted. McQuitty's (1957) cluster analysis was performed on the children's interacti…
The Supervision Partnership as a Phase of Attachment
The supervision partnership in middle childhood was proposed by Waters, Kondo-Ikemura, Posada, and Richters as the last phase of parent-child attachment. The present study elaborates this concept by proposing three components of the supervision partnership: availability and accessibility, willingness to communicate, and mutual recognition of the other’s rights. Using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) S…
Types of preschool friendships
The present study used observational data on preschool friends and cluster analysis to derive friendship types. Friend pairs were videotaped in a 1‐hour free‐play session, and observers rated several qualities of the interaction. Cluster analysis suggested that both 3‐ and 5‐cluster solutions produced meaningful groupings. For both solutions, the largest cluster included friend pairs that were harmonious, responsive, and interactive during play. …
Validating the Supervision Partnership as a Phase of Attachment
The goal of this study was to expand current attachment models by validating a three-component model of the supervision partnership conceptualization of attachment (accessibility and availability of attachment figures, willingness to communicate, and mutual recognition of other’s rights in decision-making). The model was tested by examining associations with parenting, friendship quality, other attachment measures, temperament, and IQ. In a sampl…
Pet dogs
Despite interest in human-animal interaction, few studies have tested whether the presence of a dog facilitates children's emotional responding. Preadolescents ( n = 99) were randomly assigned to complete the Trier Social Stress Test either with or without their pet dog. Children rated their positive and negative affect, and high frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) was assessed throughout the session. Children reported higher positive affec…
Seeking support in response to social and achievement stressors
Social support is the subject of much research, but comparatively little attention has been paid to support seeking. Moreover, what research exists on support seeking has primarily addressed in‐person support seeking, despite the proliferation of new support venues (e.g., Facebook, websites, etc.). This article uses a daily diary methodology to examine the support‐seeking behavior men ( N = 41) and women ( N = 97) exhibit in response to various t…
Assessing children's relationships with pet dogs
Relationships with pet dogs are thought to provide substantial benefits for children, but the study of these relationships has been hindered by a lack of validated measures. Approaches to assessing the quality of children's pet dog relationships have tended to focus on positive relationship qualities and to rely on self-report questionnaires. The aim of this study was to develop and test multiple measures that could be used to assess both positiv…
A Longitudinal Examination of Links between Mother-Child Attachment and Children's Friendships in Early Childhood
A longitudinal study examined associations between child-mother attachment security and children's friendships at two points in early childhood. Comparisons of secure-secure and secure-insecure friend pairs revealed that the interactions of secure-secure pairs were more positive at age 4 and more positive and co-ordinated at age 5
Attachment and Play
Two components of the parent-child relationship, attachment and play, are associated with peer competence, but have not been related to one another. This study examines: (a) linkages between attachment security and physical play interactions in mother-child and father-child dyads, and (b) linkages between these parenting components and peer competence. A total of 54 preschoolers (27 girls) participated with their mothers and fathers. Parents comp…
Parent-child attachment in late adolescence
Peer relationships and preadolescents' perceptions of security in the child-mother relationship
In 2 studies, peer relationships were related to children's perceptions of security in the child-mother relationship. In Study 1, a sample of 74 5th graders, children who viewed their relationship with their mother as more secure were significantly more accepted by peers, had more reciprocated friendships, and were less lonely than children who rated the relationship as less secure. In Study 2, a sample of 5th and 6th graders, 44 same-gender frie…
Social Organization in Preschool Classrooms
The purpose of this study was to examine age-related changes in preschoolers' affiliative groups. In this study, the peer group rather than the individual child was treated as the unit of analysis. Forty-seven 3-year-olds in four classes and 50 4-year-olds in four other classes were observed during free play. Observers recorded the person with whom each child interacted. McQuitty's (1957) cluster analysis was performed on the children's interacti…
Attachment style and intimacy in friendship
Two studies with college students tested the hypothesis that a secure attachment style enhances intimacy in friendship. Three intimacy characteristics were studied: self‐disclosure; responsiveness to a partner's disclosure; and feeling understood, validated, and cared for by a partner during conversations. In Study 1, individuals with a secure attachment style were higher on all three intimacy characteristics In Study 2, a lab‐based assessment of…
Types of preschool friendships
The present study used observational data on preschool friends and cluster analysis to derive friendship types. Friend pairs were videotaped in a 1‐hour free‐play session, and observers rated several qualities of the interaction. Cluster analysis suggested that both 3‐ and 5‐cluster solutions produced meaningful groupings. For both solutions, the largest cluster included friend pairs that were harmonious, responsive, and interactive during play. …
Attachment-based assessments of parent-child relationships in middle childhood
Attachment-based assessments of parent–child relationships in middle childhood
Although a number of measures have been developed to assess parent-child attachments, validity data on middle-childhood measures are lacking. The present study tested attachment-based measures of parent-child relationships designed for the later middle-childhood years (9-12 years of age). Self-reports from children assessed perceptions of security and avoidant and preoccupied coping. Some children also completed a projective interview assessing a…
Parent–child attachment and monitoring in middle childhood.
Perceptions of Sibling Qualities and Activities of Early Adolescents
The purpose for this study was to address the ways in which conflictual and positive relationship qualities in the sibling relationship differ at different grade levels during early adolescence. This question was addressed using a cross-sectional design with 170 early adolescents in fourth grade (n = 60), sixth grade (n = 44), and eighth grade (n = 66). Reports of the behaviors engaged in by children as well as their perceptions of conflictual an…
Love and school
Two studies tested the hypothesis that secure attachment facilitates exploration at college. Also, these studies examined how types of insecure attachment differentially predict exploration. In Study 1, 200 undergraduates completed self-report measures of attachment and exploration. In Study 2, 69 undergraduates completed these same measures, and two tasks that measured exploratory behavior. Ratings of attachment styles were differentially relate…
Associations between insecure attachment and sexual experiences
Associations between insecure attachment and sexual experiences were tested in a sample of 328 college students. Variations in adult attachment previously have been shown to relate to sexual behaviors, with the current study extending earlier work by examining different sexual outcomes and by testing factors that may account for these relations. Avoidant attachment was expected to relate to engagement in casual sex (i.e., a greater number of sexu…
Parent–Child Emotional Communication and Children's Coping in Middle Childhood
Parent–child communication regarding children's negative emotions and coping were examined in a sample of 75 5th graders (53% boys) and their mothers and fathers. We predicted that emotionally open communication between a parent and his or her child would be related to children's use of constructive coping strategies. Parents reported on how they react to their child's negative emotions, and children reported on how much they share their negative…
Normative Trends in Children's Perceptions of Availability and Utilization of Attachment Figures in Middle Childhood
Two studies addressed the normative aspects of attachments to mothers and fathers in middle childhood. Using both cross‐sectional and longitudinal comparisons, we tested the hypothesis that children show no changes in perceptions of availability of attachment figures across the later middle childhood years, but do utilize attachment figures less at older ages. The first study included a cross‐sectional comparison of third and sixth graders, and t…
Mother–Child Attachment Patterns and Different Types of Anxiety Symptoms
Emotion Regulation and Depressive Symptoms in Preadolescence
Mother–child attachment, emotion regulation, and anxiety symptoms in middle childhood
This study examined whether the relation of mother–child attachment with anxiety symptoms is mediated by emotion regulation (ER) processes (poor emotional awareness, biased interpretations of emotionally charged events, and coping strategies). Attachment patterns were assessed in a sample of eighty‐seven 10‐ to 12‐year‐olds using story‐stem interviews. Children who were less secure and more disorganized reported more anxiety. Attachment was also …
Pathways to Anxiety
Mother–child attachment and cognitive performance in middle childhood
The Supervision Partnership as a Phase of Attachment
The supervision partnership in middle childhood was proposed by Waters, Kondo-Ikemura, Posada, and Richters as the last phase of parent-child attachment. The present study elaborates this concept by proposing three components of the supervision partnership: availability and accessibility, willingness to communicate, and mutual recognition of the other’s rights. Using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) S…
Seeking support in response to social and achievement stressors
Social support is the subject of much research, but comparatively little attention has been paid to support seeking. Moreover, what research exists on support seeking has primarily addressed in‐person support seeking, despite the proliferation of new support venues (e.g., Facebook, websites, etc.). This article uses a daily diary methodology to examine the support‐seeking behavior men ( N = 41) and women ( N = 97) exhibit in response to various t…
Preadolescents’ relationships with pet dogs
Research on human-animal interaction in children has been studied in isolation rather than integrated with core theories of children's relationships. This study is one of the first to examine how children's relationships with pet dogs are related to their human relationships (parent-child attachments, friendships) and to child adjustment, and to include observational assessment of children's interactions with their pet dog. Children (9 to 11 year…
Pet dogs
Despite interest in human-animal interaction, few studies have tested whether the presence of a dog facilitates children's emotional responding. Preadolescents ( n = 99) were randomly assigned to complete the Trier Social Stress Test either with or without their pet dog. Children rated their positive and negative affect, and high frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) was assessed throughout the session. Children reported higher positive affec…
Perceptions of Parent-Child Attachment Relationships and Friendship Qualities
Psychology (37 obras) · Developmental psychology (36 obras) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (29 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (27 obras) · Social Psychology (26 obras) · Social Psychology (19 obras) · Clinical Psychology (16 obras) · Attachment theory (11 obras) · Clinical Psychology (11 obras) · Friendship (10 obras)