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Nancy L Mcelwain

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ID760587
NOMBRENancy L Mcelwain
NOMBRESNancy L
APELLIDOMcelwain
FIRMAMCELWAIN N L
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
ORCID0000-0001-9586-5020
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS26
TOTAL DE CITAS41
TOTAL COMO AUTOR26
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2000
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H3
  • Infants’ expectations about caregivers’ comforting behavior and associations with maternal depressive symptoms at 6, 9, and 12 months

    Open Access•Kexin Hu, Seowoo Kim et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2026

    We examined infants' expectations about caregivers' comforting behavior at 6, 9, and 12 months and assessed associations with maternal depressive symptoms. One hundred thirteen infants (47% female; 72% White, 13% Asian, 6% Black, 6% Latinx, 3% more than one race) and their mothers participated at one or more time points. In a violation-of-expectation task, infants watched video vignettes in which a caregiver either interrupted her household chore…

  • Early Mother-Child Interaction Flexibility Predicts Adolescent Psychological Adjustment

    Open Access•Xiaomei Li, Nancy L Mcelwain et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth and Adolescence•2025•Referencias: 37

  • Adolescent-Mother Attachment and Dyadic Affective Processes

    Open Access•Stephanie Gyuri Kim, Ashley Holland et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth and Adolescence•2025•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 56

  • Mother–infant interactive processes and infant behavioral and vagal stress recovery

    Open Access•Yannan Hu, Xiaomei Li et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2025

    Mother-infant interactive processes, including matching social behaviors and repairing interactive ruptures, are proposed to foster infant stress functioning. However, little is known about the extent to which the concurrent relations between these dyadic processes and infant behavioral and vagal stress recovery change over the first year of life. In this study, 116 mother-infant dyads (55 girls) from a midwestern city in the United States comple…

  • Dynamic coupling of maternal sensitivity and toddlers’ responsive/assertive behaviors predicts children’s behavior toward peers during the preschool years

    Open Access•Niyantri Ravindran, Nancy L Mcelwain•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2024

    We examined the extent to which dynamic coupling of (a) maternal sensitivity and (b) children's responsive and assertive behaviors toward mothers during a semistructured play session predicts children's responsive and assertive behavior toward an unfamiliar peer at 39 months and a close friend at 58 and 66 months. Maternal and child behaviors were rated in 30-s epochs during play when children were 32 months old (Time 1; N = 128; 66 girls). Child…

  • Maternal autonomy support and intrusive control in the United States and China

    Open Access•Xi Chen, Nancy L Mcelwain et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2024•Citada por: 2

    This study examines the moment-to-moment within-person associations between maternal and child behaviors during a challenging puzzle task and compares these associations between mother-child dyads from the United States ( n = 99, 52 boys, M child age = 56.05 months, SD = 6.44) and China ( n = 101, 46 boys, M child age = 57.41 months, SD = 6.58). Maternal autonomy support and intrusive control and child agency and defeat were rated in 15-s interva…

  • Interactive Contribution of Observed Mother-Youth Emotional Climate and Youth Physiology

    Open Access•Xiaomei Li, Kelly M Tu et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Early Adolescence•2022•Referencias: 3

    We examined the prospective associations between two indicators of mother-youth emotional climate (i.e., maternal affect, dyadic cohesiveness) during a peer problem discussion and youth coping with peer stress following entry into middle school. We also investigated youth baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) as a moderator of these associations given its role in physiological stress regulation. Participants were 100 mother-youth dyads (53%…

  • Dynamic fluctuations in maternal cardiac vagal tone moderate moment-to-moment associations between children’s negative behavior and maternal emotional support

    Open Access•Niyantri Ravindran, Nancy L Mcelwain et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2022

    Our primary objective was to examine the extent to which moment-to-moment associations between preschool-aged children's behavior and maternal emotional support differed for mothers showing different levels of parasympathetic engagement. We used behavioral observations of maternal and child behavior and maternal changes in cardiac vagal tone assessed via respiratory sinus arrhythmia in 15-s intervals during a 5-min challenging puzzle task (N = 12…

  • Maternal emotion socialization in early childhood predicts adolescents’ amygdala-vmPFC functional connectivity to emotion faces

    Open Access•Xi Chen, Ethan M McCormick et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2020•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 1

    Guided by Eisenberg, Cumberland, and Spinrad's (1998) conceptual framework, we examined multiple components of maternal emotion socialization (i.e., reactions to children's negative emotion, emotion talk, emotional expressiveness) at 33 months of age as predictors of adolescents' amygdala-vmPFC connectivity and amygdala activation when labeling and passively observing angry and happy faces. For angry faces, more positive maternal emotion socializ…

  • Perceiving facial affective ambiguity

    Open Access•Tae‐ho Lee, Michael T Perino et al.•ARTICLE•Emotion•2019

    The current study examined perceptual differences between adults and youth in perceiving ambiguous facial expressions. We estimated individuals' internal representation for facial expressions and compared it between age groups (adolescents: N = 108, Mage = 13.04 years, 43.52% female; adults: N = 81, Mage = 31.54, 65.43% female). We found that adolescents' perceptual representation for facial emotion is broader than that of adults', such that adol…

  • Theory of mind as a mechanism linking mother–toddler relationship quality and child–friend interaction during the preschool years

    Open Access•Nancy L Mcelwain, Niyantri Ravindran et al.•ARTICLE•Social Development•2019•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 9

    Children's relationships with parents and peers have been examined as predictors and outcomes, respectively, of theory of mind (ToM). Yet, these two lines of inquiry have remained largely distinct. The current study bridges this gap. Mother–child coordinated interaction and attachment security (continuous rating) were assessed at 2.8 years ( N = 128 dyads), ToM was assessed at 3.3, 4.8, and 5.4 years, and child–friend interaction was observed at …

  • Dynamic bidirectional associations in negative behavior

    Open Access•Niyantri Ravindran, Daniel Berry et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2019•Referencias: 6

    Theoretical models posit real-time bidirectional processes between parents and children as integral to child development, yet few studies have examined such processes. In this study, cross-lagged autoregressive latent growth models were used to assess the dynamic organization of mother and toddler behavior across a snack-delay task. Maternal support and nonsupport and toddler aversive behaviors were rated in 15-s intervals (N = 127 dyads; mean to…

  • Emotion understanding and maternal sensitivity as protective factors against hostile attribution bias in anger‐prone children

    Open Access•Maria S Wong, Xi Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Social Development•2018•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 9

    The present research examined children’s anger proneness, emotion understanding, and maternal sensitivity during toddlerhood as predictors of children’s hostile attribution bias (HAB) during the later preschool years. At 2.8 years ( N = 128), maternal sensitivity (e.g., child‐centered behavior) was observed during mother–child play and snack, and parents reported on children’s anger proneness. At 3.3 years, emotion understanding (i.e., ability to…

  • Mothers’ dispositional distress reactivity as a predictor of maternal support following momentary fluctuations in children’s aversive behavior

    Open Access•Niyantri Ravindran, Nancy L Mcelwain et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2018•Referencias: 4

    Given that maternal support promotes healthy social and emotional development in early childhood, it is important to understand the predictors of such support, especially during emotional challenges. In this study, mothers' dispositional distress reactivity (i.e., the tendency toward experiencing distress in response to children's negative emotions and behavior) was assessed as a predictor of maternal support in a given moment when children showe…

  • Maternal Supportive Behavior, Cognitive Talk, and Desire/Emotion Talk at 24 Months

    Allison Jessee, Nancy L Mcelwain et al.•ARTICLE•Parenting•2016•Referencias: 11

    Maternal talk about mental states is a unique component of parenting, and cognitive talk is distinct from desire and emotion talk

  • Child–child similarity on attachment and temperament as predictors of positive interaction during acquaintanceship at age 3

    Open Access•Nancy L Mcelwain, Brian Ogolsky et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2016•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 16

    Child-child similarity on attachment and temperament were examined, in turn, as predictors of interaction quality between previously unacquainted children. At 33 months, child-mother attachment security was assessed, and parents reported on child temperament. At 39 months, 114 children were randomly paired into 57 same-sex dyads and observed during 3 laboratory visits over a 1-month period. Positive interaction (composed of ratings of dyadic coor…

  • Getting acquainted

    Nancy L Mcelwain, Ashley S Holland et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2014•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 7

    Guided by a dyadic view of children's peer behavior, this study assessed actor and partner effects of attachment security and temperament on young children's behavior with an unfamiliar peer. At 33 months of age, child-mother attachment security was assessed via a modified Strange Situation procedure, and parents reported on child temperament (anger proneness and social fearfulness). At 39 months, same-sex children (N = 114, 58 girls) were random…

  • Parental depressive symptoms and marital intimacy at 4.5 years

    Jennifer M Engle, Jennifer Engle et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2013•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 4

    Using data from a subset of 606 families who participated in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, we assessed emotional intimacy in the marriage as a buffer of the negative effects of parental depression on the quality of parent-child interaction. Maternal and paternal depressive symptoms and perceptions of emotional intimacy in the marriage were assessed via self-reports wh…

  • Infant–mother attachment and children's friendship quality

    Nancy L Mcelwain, Cathryn Booth-Laforce et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2011•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 8

    Utilizing data from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, we investigated mothers' talk about mental states during play with their 24-month-old children as a mechanism though which infant-mother attachment was associated with children's later friendship quality. A series of repeated measures analyses of covariance indicated that a secure versus avoida…

  • Parental Reactions to Toddlers' Negative Emotions and Child Negative Emotionality as Correlates of Problem Behavior at the Age of Three

    Open Access•Jennifer M Engle, Jennifer Engle et al.•ARTICLE•Social Development•2010•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 10

    Parent‐reported reactions to children's negative emotions and child negative emotionality were investigated as correlates of internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Children (N = 107) and their parents participated in a short‐term longitudinal study of social development. Mothers and fathers independently completed questionnaires assessing parental reactions to their child's negative emotions and child negative emotionality at Time 1 (33 month…

  • Parent, family, and child characteristics

    Maria S Wong, Nancy L Mcelwain et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Family Psychology•2009

    The present research examined parental beliefs about children's negative emotions, parent-reported marital conflict/ambivalence, and child negative emotionality and gender as predictors of mothers' and fathers' reported reactions to their kindergarten children's negative emotions and self-expressiveness in the family (N = 55, two-parent families). Models predicting parents' nonsupportive reactions and negative expressiveness were significant. For…

  • Mother- and Father-Reported Reactions to Children’s Negative Emotions

    Open Access•Nancy L Mcelwain, Amy G Halberstadt et al.•ARTICLE•Child Development•2007

    Mother- and father-reported reactions to children’s negative emotions were examined as correlates of emotional understanding (Study 1, N = 55, 5- to 6-year-olds) and friendship quality (Study 2, N = 49, 3- to 5-year-olds). Mothers’ and fathers’ supportive reactions together contributed to greater child–friend coordinated play during a sharing task. Further, when one parent reported low support, greater support by the other parent was related to b…

  • The Effect of Father–Toddler and Mother– Toddler Role Reversal on the Development of Behavior Problems in Kindergarten

    Open Access•John Macfie, Jenny Macfie et al.•ARTICLE•Social Development•2005•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 10

    Role reversal is a relationship disturbance in which a parent looks to a child to meet a parent's need for comfort, parenting, intimacy or play, and the child attempts to meet these needs. The current study examined, within a developmental psychopathology framework, the effect of father and mother role reversal with toddlers on the development of attention problems, externalizing symptoms, internalizing symptoms, and social problems in kindergart…

  • Attachment security and parental sensitivity during infancy

    Open Access•Nancy L Mcelwain, Brenda L Volling•ARTICLE•Journal of Social and Personal…•2004•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 58

    The current study investigated how attachment security and parental sensitivity during infancy were related to children's understanding of false belief and friendship quality during the preschool period ( N = 30). At age 1, parent-infant attachment was assessed in the Strange Situation, and a 3-point security score based on the attachment subcategories was utilized. Also, at this time point, parental sensitivity was observed during two semi-struc…

  • Relating Individual Control, Social Understanding, and Gender to Child–Friend Interaction

    Open Access•Nancy L Mcelwain, Brenda L Volling•ARTICLE•Social Development•2002•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 13

    According to a relationships perspective, it is critical to consider how the individual behaviors and characteristics of both partners shape their social interaction. Adopting a relationships approach to the investigation of children's friendships, we examined how preschool children's and their friends’ controlling behaviors, social understanding, and gender were related to their dyadic interaction. Child–friend dyads (n = 49) were videotaped in …

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  • Attachment security and parental sensitivity during infancy

    Open Access•Nancy L Mcelwain, Brenda L Volling•ARTICLE•Journal of Social and Personal…•2004•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 58

    The current study investigated how attachment security and parental sensitivity during infancy were related to children's understanding of false belief and friendship quality during the preschool period ( N = 30). At age 1, parent-infant attachment was assessed in the Strange Situation, and a 3-point security score based on the attachment subcategories was utilized. Also, at this time point, parental sensitivity was observed during two semi-struc…

  • The Effect of Father–Toddler and Mother– Toddler Role Reversal on the Development of Behavior Problems in Kindergarten

    Open Access•John Macfie, Jenny Macfie et al.•ARTICLE•Social Development•2005•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 10

    Role reversal is a relationship disturbance in which a parent looks to a child to meet a parent's need for comfort, parenting, intimacy or play, and the child attempts to meet these needs. The current study examined, within a developmental psychopathology framework, the effect of father and mother role reversal with toddlers on the development of attention problems, externalizing symptoms, internalizing symptoms, and social problems in kindergart…

  • Getting acquainted

    Nancy L Mcelwain, Ashley S Holland et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2014•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 7

    Guided by a dyadic view of children's peer behavior, this study assessed actor and partner effects of attachment security and temperament on young children's behavior with an unfamiliar peer. At 33 months of age, child-mother attachment security was assessed via a modified Strange Situation procedure, and parents reported on child temperament (anger proneness and social fearfulness). At 39 months, same-sex children (N = 114, 58 girls) were random…

  • Parental depressive symptoms and marital intimacy at 4.5 years

    Jennifer M Engle, Jennifer Engle et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2013•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 4

    Using data from a subset of 606 families who participated in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, we assessed emotional intimacy in the marriage as a buffer of the negative effects of parental depression on the quality of parent-child interaction. Maternal and paternal depressive symptoms and perceptions of emotional intimacy in the marriage were assessed via self-reports wh…

  • Infant–mother attachment and children's friendship quality

    Nancy L Mcelwain, Cathryn Booth-Laforce et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2011•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 8

    Utilizing data from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, we investigated mothers' talk about mental states during play with their 24-month-old children as a mechanism though which infant-mother attachment was associated with children's later friendship quality. A series of repeated measures analyses of covariance indicated that a secure versus avoida…

  • Sibling Jealousy in a Triadic Context with Mothers and Fathers

    Open Access•A L Miller, Brenda L Volling et al.•ARTICLE•Social Development•2000•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 9

    The current study focused on jealousy between toddler and preschool siblings. Sixty‐two families participated in triadic interaction sessions, in which mothers and then fathers were instructed to focus on one child (older sibling or toddler) while encouraging the other child to play with other toys in the room. Results indicated that child jealousy reactions differed between mothers and fathers, and parents behaved differently with older and youn…

  • Maternal autonomy support and intrusive control in the United States and China

    Open Access•Xi Chen, Nancy L Mcelwain et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2024•Citada por: 2

    This study examines the moment-to-moment within-person associations between maternal and child behaviors during a challenging puzzle task and compares these associations between mother-child dyads from the United States ( n = 99, 52 boys, M child age = 56.05 months, SD = 6.44) and China ( n = 101, 46 boys, M child age = 57.41 months, SD = 6.58). Maternal autonomy support and intrusive control and child agency and defeat were rated in 15-s interva…

  • Maternal emotion socialization in early childhood predicts adolescents’ amygdala-vmPFC functional connectivity to emotion faces

    Open Access•Xi Chen, Ethan M McCormick et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2020•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 1

    Guided by Eisenberg, Cumberland, and Spinrad's (1998) conceptual framework, we examined multiple components of maternal emotion socialization (i.e., reactions to children's negative emotion, emotion talk, emotional expressiveness) at 33 months of age as predictors of adolescents' amygdala-vmPFC connectivity and amygdala activation when labeling and passively observing angry and happy faces. For angry faces, more positive maternal emotion socializ…

  • Parental Reactions to Toddlers' Negative Emotions and Child Negative Emotionality as Correlates of Problem Behavior at the Age of Three

    Open Access•Jennifer M Engle, Jennifer Engle et al.•ARTICLE•Social Development•2010•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 10

    Parent‐reported reactions to children's negative emotions and child negative emotionality were investigated as correlates of internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Children (N = 107) and their parents participated in a short‐term longitudinal study of social development. Mothers and fathers independently completed questionnaires assessing parental reactions to their child's negative emotions and child negative emotionality at Time 1 (33 month…

  • Adolescent-Mother Attachment and Dyadic Affective Processes

    Open Access•Stephanie Gyuri Kim, Ashley Holland et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth and Adolescence•2025•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 56

  • Theory of mind as a mechanism linking mother–toddler relationship quality and child–friend interaction during the preschool years

    Open Access•Nancy L Mcelwain, Niyantri Ravindran et al.•ARTICLE•Social Development•2019•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 9

    Children's relationships with parents and peers have been examined as predictors and outcomes, respectively, of theory of mind (ToM). Yet, these two lines of inquiry have remained largely distinct. The current study bridges this gap. Mother–child coordinated interaction and attachment security (continuous rating) were assessed at 2.8 years ( N = 128 dyads), ToM was assessed at 3.3, 4.8, and 5.4 years, and child–friend interaction was observed at …

  • Emotion understanding and maternal sensitivity as protective factors against hostile attribution bias in anger‐prone children

    Open Access•Maria S Wong, Xi Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Social Development•2018•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 9

    The present research examined children’s anger proneness, emotion understanding, and maternal sensitivity during toddlerhood as predictors of children’s hostile attribution bias (HAB) during the later preschool years. At 2.8 years ( N = 128), maternal sensitivity (e.g., child‐centered behavior) was observed during mother–child play and snack, and parents reported on children’s anger proneness. At 3.3 years, emotion understanding (i.e., ability to…

  • Child–child similarity on attachment and temperament as predictors of positive interaction during acquaintanceship at age 3

    Open Access•Nancy L Mcelwain, Brian Ogolsky et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2016•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 16

    Child-child similarity on attachment and temperament were examined, in turn, as predictors of interaction quality between previously unacquainted children. At 33 months, child-mother attachment security was assessed, and parents reported on child temperament. At 39 months, 114 children were randomly paired into 57 same-sex dyads and observed during 3 laboratory visits over a 1-month period. Positive interaction (composed of ratings of dyadic coor…

  • Relating Individual Control, Social Understanding, and Gender to Child–Friend Interaction

    Open Access•Nancy L Mcelwain, Brenda L Volling•ARTICLE•Social Development•2002•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 13

    According to a relationships perspective, it is critical to consider how the individual behaviors and characteristics of both partners shape their social interaction. Adopting a relationships approach to the investigation of children's friendships, we examined how preschool children's and their friends’ controlling behaviors, social understanding, and gender were related to their dyadic interaction. Child–friend dyads (n = 49) were videotaped in …

  • Sibling Jealousy in a Triadic Context with Mothers and Fathers

    Open Access•A L Miller, Brenda L Volling et al.•ARTICLE•Social Development•2000•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 9

    The current study focused on jealousy between toddler and preschool siblings. Sixty‐two families participated in triadic interaction sessions, in which mothers and then fathers were instructed to focus on one child (older sibling or toddler) while encouraging the other child to play with other toys in the room. Results indicated that child jealousy reactions differed between mothers and fathers, and parents behaved differently with older and youn…

  • Relating Individual Control, Social Understanding, and Gender to Child–Friend Interaction

    Open Access•Nancy L Mcelwain, Brenda L Volling•ARTICLE•Social Development•2002•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 13

    According to a relationships perspective, it is critical to consider how the individual behaviors and characteristics of both partners shape their social interaction. Adopting a relationships approach to the investigation of children's friendships, we examined how preschool children's and their friends’ controlling behaviors, social understanding, and gender were related to their dyadic interaction. Child–friend dyads (n = 49) were videotaped in …

  • Attachment security and parental sensitivity during infancy

    Open Access•Nancy L Mcelwain, Brenda L Volling•ARTICLE•Journal of Social and Personal…•2004•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 58

    The current study investigated how attachment security and parental sensitivity during infancy were related to children's understanding of false belief and friendship quality during the preschool period ( N = 30). At age 1, parent-infant attachment was assessed in the Strange Situation, and a 3-point security score based on the attachment subcategories was utilized. Also, at this time point, parental sensitivity was observed during two semi-struc…

  • The Effect of Father–Toddler and Mother– Toddler Role Reversal on the Development of Behavior Problems in Kindergarten

    Open Access•John Macfie, Jenny Macfie et al.•ARTICLE•Social Development•2005•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 10

    Role reversal is a relationship disturbance in which a parent looks to a child to meet a parent's need for comfort, parenting, intimacy or play, and the child attempts to meet these needs. The current study examined, within a developmental psychopathology framework, the effect of father and mother role reversal with toddlers on the development of attention problems, externalizing symptoms, internalizing symptoms, and social problems in kindergart…

  • Mother- and Father-Reported Reactions to Children’s Negative Emotions

    Open Access•Nancy L Mcelwain, Amy G Halberstadt et al.•ARTICLE•Child Development•2007

    Mother- and father-reported reactions to children’s negative emotions were examined as correlates of emotional understanding (Study 1, N = 55, 5- to 6-year-olds) and friendship quality (Study 2, N = 49, 3- to 5-year-olds). Mothers’ and fathers’ supportive reactions together contributed to greater child–friend coordinated play during a sharing task. Further, when one parent reported low support, greater support by the other parent was related to b…

  • Parent, family, and child characteristics

    Maria S Wong, Nancy L Mcelwain et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Family Psychology•2009

    The present research examined parental beliefs about children's negative emotions, parent-reported marital conflict/ambivalence, and child negative emotionality and gender as predictors of mothers' and fathers' reported reactions to their kindergarten children's negative emotions and self-expressiveness in the family (N = 55, two-parent families). Models predicting parents' nonsupportive reactions and negative expressiveness were significant. For…

  • Parental Reactions to Toddlers' Negative Emotions and Child Negative Emotionality as Correlates of Problem Behavior at the Age of Three

    Open Access•Jennifer M Engle, Jennifer Engle et al.•ARTICLE•Social Development•2010•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 10

    Parent‐reported reactions to children's negative emotions and child negative emotionality were investigated as correlates of internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Children (N = 107) and their parents participated in a short‐term longitudinal study of social development. Mothers and fathers independently completed questionnaires assessing parental reactions to their child's negative emotions and child negative emotionality at Time 1 (33 month…

  • Infant–mother attachment and children's friendship quality

    Nancy L Mcelwain, Cathryn Booth-Laforce et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2011•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 8

    Utilizing data from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, we investigated mothers' talk about mental states during play with their 24-month-old children as a mechanism though which infant-mother attachment was associated with children's later friendship quality. A series of repeated measures analyses of covariance indicated that a secure versus avoida…

  • Parental depressive symptoms and marital intimacy at 4.5 years

    Jennifer M Engle, Jennifer Engle et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2013•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 4

    Using data from a subset of 606 families who participated in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, we assessed emotional intimacy in the marriage as a buffer of the negative effects of parental depression on the quality of parent-child interaction. Maternal and paternal depressive symptoms and perceptions of emotional intimacy in the marriage were assessed via self-reports wh…

  • Getting acquainted

    Nancy L Mcelwain, Ashley S Holland et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2014•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 7

    Guided by a dyadic view of children's peer behavior, this study assessed actor and partner effects of attachment security and temperament on young children's behavior with an unfamiliar peer. At 33 months of age, child-mother attachment security was assessed via a modified Strange Situation procedure, and parents reported on child temperament (anger proneness and social fearfulness). At 39 months, same-sex children (N = 114, 58 girls) were random…

  • Maternal Supportive Behavior, Cognitive Talk, and Desire/Emotion Talk at 24 Months

    Allison Jessee, Nancy L Mcelwain et al.•ARTICLE•Parenting•2016•Referencias: 11

    Maternal talk about mental states is a unique component of parenting, and cognitive talk is distinct from desire and emotion talk

  • Child–child similarity on attachment and temperament as predictors of positive interaction during acquaintanceship at age 3

    Open Access•Nancy L Mcelwain, Brian Ogolsky et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2016•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 16

    Child-child similarity on attachment and temperament were examined, in turn, as predictors of interaction quality between previously unacquainted children. At 33 months, child-mother attachment security was assessed, and parents reported on child temperament. At 39 months, 114 children were randomly paired into 57 same-sex dyads and observed during 3 laboratory visits over a 1-month period. Positive interaction (composed of ratings of dyadic coor…

  • Emotion understanding and maternal sensitivity as protective factors against hostile attribution bias in anger‐prone children

    Open Access•Maria S Wong, Xi Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Social Development•2018•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 9

    The present research examined children’s anger proneness, emotion understanding, and maternal sensitivity during toddlerhood as predictors of children’s hostile attribution bias (HAB) during the later preschool years. At 2.8 years ( N = 128), maternal sensitivity (e.g., child‐centered behavior) was observed during mother–child play and snack, and parents reported on children’s anger proneness. At 3.3 years, emotion understanding (i.e., ability to…

  • Mothers’ dispositional distress reactivity as a predictor of maternal support following momentary fluctuations in children’s aversive behavior

    Open Access•Niyantri Ravindran, Nancy L Mcelwain et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2018•Referencias: 4

    Given that maternal support promotes healthy social and emotional development in early childhood, it is important to understand the predictors of such support, especially during emotional challenges. In this study, mothers' dispositional distress reactivity (i.e., the tendency toward experiencing distress in response to children's negative emotions and behavior) was assessed as a predictor of maternal support in a given moment when children showe…

  • Perceiving facial affective ambiguity

    Open Access•Tae‐ho Lee, Michael T Perino et al.•ARTICLE•Emotion•2019

    The current study examined perceptual differences between adults and youth in perceiving ambiguous facial expressions. We estimated individuals' internal representation for facial expressions and compared it between age groups (adolescents: N = 108, Mage = 13.04 years, 43.52% female; adults: N = 81, Mage = 31.54, 65.43% female). We found that adolescents' perceptual representation for facial emotion is broader than that of adults', such that adol…

  • Theory of mind as a mechanism linking mother–toddler relationship quality and child–friend interaction during the preschool years

    Open Access•Nancy L Mcelwain, Niyantri Ravindran et al.•ARTICLE•Social Development•2019•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 9

    Children's relationships with parents and peers have been examined as predictors and outcomes, respectively, of theory of mind (ToM). Yet, these two lines of inquiry have remained largely distinct. The current study bridges this gap. Mother–child coordinated interaction and attachment security (continuous rating) were assessed at 2.8 years ( N = 128 dyads), ToM was assessed at 3.3, 4.8, and 5.4 years, and child–friend interaction was observed at …

  • Dynamic bidirectional associations in negative behavior

    Open Access•Niyantri Ravindran, Daniel Berry et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2019•Referencias: 6

    Theoretical models posit real-time bidirectional processes between parents and children as integral to child development, yet few studies have examined such processes. In this study, cross-lagged autoregressive latent growth models were used to assess the dynamic organization of mother and toddler behavior across a snack-delay task. Maternal support and nonsupport and toddler aversive behaviors were rated in 15-s intervals (N = 127 dyads; mean to…

  • Maternal emotion socialization in early childhood predicts adolescents’ amygdala-vmPFC functional connectivity to emotion faces

    Open Access•Xi Chen, Ethan M McCormick et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2020•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 1

    Guided by Eisenberg, Cumberland, and Spinrad's (1998) conceptual framework, we examined multiple components of maternal emotion socialization (i.e., reactions to children's negative emotion, emotion talk, emotional expressiveness) at 33 months of age as predictors of adolescents' amygdala-vmPFC connectivity and amygdala activation when labeling and passively observing angry and happy faces. For angry faces, more positive maternal emotion socializ…

  • Interactive Contribution of Observed Mother-Youth Emotional Climate and Youth Physiology

    Open Access•Xiaomei Li, Kelly M Tu et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Early Adolescence•2022•Referencias: 3

    We examined the prospective associations between two indicators of mother-youth emotional climate (i.e., maternal affect, dyadic cohesiveness) during a peer problem discussion and youth coping with peer stress following entry into middle school. We also investigated youth baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) as a moderator of these associations given its role in physiological stress regulation. Participants were 100 mother-youth dyads (53%…

  • Dynamic fluctuations in maternal cardiac vagal tone moderate moment-to-moment associations between children’s negative behavior and maternal emotional support

    Open Access•Niyantri Ravindran, Nancy L Mcelwain et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2022

    Our primary objective was to examine the extent to which moment-to-moment associations between preschool-aged children's behavior and maternal emotional support differed for mothers showing different levels of parasympathetic engagement. We used behavioral observations of maternal and child behavior and maternal changes in cardiac vagal tone assessed via respiratory sinus arrhythmia in 15-s intervals during a 5-min challenging puzzle task (N = 12…

  • Dynamic coupling of maternal sensitivity and toddlers’ responsive/assertive behaviors predicts children’s behavior toward peers during the preschool years

    Open Access•Niyantri Ravindran, Nancy L Mcelwain•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2024

    We examined the extent to which dynamic coupling of (a) maternal sensitivity and (b) children's responsive and assertive behaviors toward mothers during a semistructured play session predicts children's responsive and assertive behavior toward an unfamiliar peer at 39 months and a close friend at 58 and 66 months. Maternal and child behaviors were rated in 30-s epochs during play when children were 32 months old (Time 1; N = 128; 66 girls). Child…

  • Maternal autonomy support and intrusive control in the United States and China

    Open Access•Xi Chen, Nancy L Mcelwain et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2024•Citada por: 2

    This study examines the moment-to-moment within-person associations between maternal and child behaviors during a challenging puzzle task and compares these associations between mother-child dyads from the United States ( n = 99, 52 boys, M child age = 56.05 months, SD = 6.44) and China ( n = 101, 46 boys, M child age = 57.41 months, SD = 6.58). Maternal autonomy support and intrusive control and child agency and defeat were rated in 15-s interva…

  • Early Mother-Child Interaction Flexibility Predicts Adolescent Psychological Adjustment

    Open Access•Xiaomei Li, Nancy L Mcelwain et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth and Adolescence•2025•Referencias: 37

  • Adolescent-Mother Attachment and Dyadic Affective Processes

    Open Access•Stephanie Gyuri Kim, Ashley Holland et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth and Adolescence•2025•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 56

  • Mother–infant interactive processes and infant behavioral and vagal stress recovery

    Open Access•Yannan Hu, Xiaomei Li et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2025

    Mother-infant interactive processes, including matching social behaviors and repairing interactive ruptures, are proposed to foster infant stress functioning. However, little is known about the extent to which the concurrent relations between these dyadic processes and infant behavioral and vagal stress recovery change over the first year of life. In this study, 116 mother-infant dyads (55 girls) from a midwestern city in the United States comple…

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