Morgan J Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 88060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Morgan J Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Morgan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1319-7423 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sleeping through the ages: Developmental trajectories of actigraphy-derived sleep–wake patterns across adolescence and emerging adulthood
Sleep is a fundamental domain of development and has important implications for other key aspects of adaptation. Little is known about normative changes in sleep across adolescence and emerging adulthood and whether the change is linear or nonlinear. We examined growth trajectories of sleep across 9 years of development and individual differences in trajectories according to participants' race/ethnicity and sex assigned at birth. During each wave…
Lessons learned from witnessing constructive interparental conflict and the beneficial implications for children
This study examined children's emotion situation knowledge and social problem-solving abilities as mediators in the prospective link between constructive interparental conflict (IPC) and children's psychological adjustment in a sample of 238 preschool children ( M age = 4.38 years; 52% female children; 28% Black; 14% multiracial or other race; 16% Latinx) and their mothers. The methodological approach consisted of multiple methods and informants …
Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Reactivity and Their Coordination as Antecedents to the Cascade of Children's Callous-Unemotional Traits and Later Psychological Adjustment
This study examined whether a mediational cascade involving children's respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reactivity to a series of cognitive and socio-evaluative stressors, their callous-unemotional (CU) traits, and psychological adjustment was moderated by their cardiac pre-ejection period (PEP) reactivity. Using a multi-method, multi-informant design, 238 mothers and their preschool children (Mage = 4.38, 52% female; 68% White; 18% Black; 14% …
Parent–child boundary dissolution and children’s psychological difficulties: A meta-analytic review
Boundary dissolution has broadly been defined as the breakdown of boundaries and loss of psychological distinctiveness in the parent-child subsystem. Qualitative reviews have highlighted the developmental and clinical value of examining boundary dissolution as a multidimensional construct. Though prior work suggests patterns share minimal variance, research has yet to quantitatively synthesize the weighted effect of distinct patterns. The primary…
Developmental stasis, sensitivity, and disturbance: Linking concepts to analytic methods using impulsivity and alcohol use
The goals of this article are to (a) describe and contrast conceptual characteristics of periods of developmental sensitivity, disturbance, and stasis, and (b) translate these concepts to testable analytic models with an example dataset. Although the concept of developmental sensitivity is widely known, the concepts of developmental stasis and disturbance have received less attention. We first define the concepts and their principles and then, us…
The legacy of harsh parenting: Enduring and sleeper effects on trajectories of externalizing and internalizing symptoms
Guided by developmental models examining the legacy of childhood caregiving environments, we examined the longitudinal pattern of associations between harsh parenting and children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms across late childhood to late adolescence. Participants included 199 youth (48.7% female, 65.3% White, 32.2% Black, 2.5% biracial) and their mothers and fathers from a diverse range of socioeconomic backgrounds. The study utili…
A process model of parental executive functioning as a spillover mechanism linking interparental conflict and parenting difficulties across parenting domains
There is a well-documented interdependency between destructive interparental conflict (IPC) and parenting difficulties (i.e., spillover effect), yet little is known about the mechanisms that "carry" spillover between IPC and parenting. Guided by a cascade model framework, the current study used a longitudinal, multimethod, multi-informant design to examine a process model of spillover that tested whether parental executive functioning (working me…
From Counting Dollars to Counting Sheep: Exploring Simultaneous Change in Economic Well-Being and Sleep among African American Adolescents
In the U.S.A., Black/African American adolescents disproportionately experience short and poor-quality sleep, and there is little understanding of why some experience decrements or improvements in sleep over time. Toward conducting culturally specific research and identifying processes that uniquely explain variability within a racial/ethnic group, we utilized a within-group design to examine socioeconomic status (SES) as a predictor of Black ado…
Understanding heterogeneity in pathways between interparental conflict and children's involvement: The moderating role of affect-biased attention
The study examined the moderating role of children's affect-biased attention to angry, fearful, and sad adult faces in the link between interparental conflict and children's distinct forms of involvement. Participants included 243 preschool children (M age = 4.60 years, 56% female) and their parents from racially (48% African American, 43% White) and socioeconomically (median annual household income = $36,000) diverse backgrounds. Data collection…
Interparental conflict as a quadratic predictor of children’s reactivity to interparental conflict and school adjustment: Steeling effects or risk saturation
This study examined interparental conflict as a curvilinear predictor of children's reactivity to interparental conflict and, in turn, their school problems across three annual measurements. Participants included 243 preschool children (Mage = 4.60 years; 56% girls) and their parents from racially (e.g., 48% Black; 16% Latinx) diverse backgrounds. Interparental conflict was a significant quadratic predictor of children's emotional reactivity (β =…
The cognitive costs and advantages of children’s exposure to parental relationship instability: Testing an evolutionary-developmental hypothesis
Guided by evolutionary-developmental models, this study tested the hypothesis that children's exposure to parental relationship instability, defined by initiation and dissolution of caregiver intimate relationships, has both costs in cognitive impairments and benefits in enhanced learning skills. Participants included 243 mothers and their preschool children ( M age 4.60 years; 56% girls) from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds (e.g., 46% Blac…
The Vestiges of Childhood Interparental Conflict: Adolescent Sensitization to Recent Interparental Conflict
This study examined whether childhood interparental conflict moderated the mediational pathway involving adolescent exposure to interparental conflict, their negative emotional reactivity to family conflict, and their psychological problems in a sample of 235 children (Mage = 6 years). Significant moderated-mediation findings indicated that the mediational path among Wave 4 interparental conflict during adolescence, change in youth negative react…
Children’s attentional biases to emotions as sources of variability in their vulnerability to interparental conflict
Little is known about the role children’s processing of emotions plays in altering children’s vulnerability to interparental conflict. To address this gap, the present study examined whether the mediational cascade involving children’s exposure to interparental conflict, their insecure responses to interparental conflict, and their psychological problems varied as a function of children’s pre-existing biases to attend to angry, fearful, sad, and …
Understanding how and why effortful control moderates children’s vulnerability to interparental conflict
This study examined the moderating role of effortful control in the association between interparental conflict and externalizing problems in a diverse sample of preschool children ( N = 243; M age = 4.60 years). Using a multimethod, multi-informant, prospective design, findings indicated that the relation between interparental conflict and externalizing problems was only significant among children with poor effortful control. Children with high e…
Child response processes as mediators of the association between caregiver intimate relationship instability and children’s externalizing symptoms
Guided primarily by life history theory, this study was designed to identify how and why early exposure to caregiver intimate relationship instability uniquely predicts children's externalizing symptoms in the context of other dimensions of unpredictability characterized by residential and parental job transitions. Participants included 243 preschool children ( M age = 4.60 years) and their mothers who participated in 3 annual measurement occasio…
The legacy of harsh parenting: Enduring and sleeper effects on trajectories of externalizing and internalizing symptoms
Guided by developmental models examining the legacy of childhood caregiving environments, we examined the longitudinal pattern of associations between harsh parenting and children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms across late childhood to late adolescence. Participants included 199 youth (48.7% female, 65.3% White, 32.2% Black, 2.5% biracial) and their mothers and fathers from a diverse range of socioeconomic backgrounds. The study utili…
Children’s attentional biases to emotions as sources of variability in their vulnerability to interparental conflict
Little is known about the role children’s processing of emotions plays in altering children’s vulnerability to interparental conflict. To address this gap, the present study examined whether the mediational cascade involving children’s exposure to interparental conflict, their insecure responses to interparental conflict, and their psychological problems varied as a function of children’s pre-existing biases to attend to angry, fearful, sad, and …
Understanding how and why effortful control moderates children’s vulnerability to interparental conflict
This study examined the moderating role of effortful control in the association between interparental conflict and externalizing problems in a diverse sample of preschool children ( N = 243; M age = 4.60 years). Using a multimethod, multi-informant, prospective design, findings indicated that the relation between interparental conflict and externalizing problems was only significant among children with poor effortful control. Children with high e…
A process model of parental executive functioning as a spillover mechanism linking interparental conflict and parenting difficulties across parenting domains
There is a well-documented interdependency between destructive interparental conflict (IPC) and parenting difficulties (i.e., spillover effect), yet little is known about the mechanisms that "carry" spillover between IPC and parenting. Guided by a cascade model framework, the current study used a longitudinal, multimethod, multi-informant design to examine a process model of spillover that tested whether parental executive functioning (working me…
The cognitive costs and advantages of children’s exposure to parental relationship instability: Testing an evolutionary-developmental hypothesis
Guided by evolutionary-developmental models, this study tested the hypothesis that children's exposure to parental relationship instability, defined by initiation and dissolution of caregiver intimate relationships, has both costs in cognitive impairments and benefits in enhanced learning skills. Participants included 243 mothers and their preschool children ( M age 4.60 years; 56% girls) from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds (e.g., 46% Blac…
Child response processes as mediators of the association between caregiver intimate relationship instability and children’s externalizing symptoms
Guided primarily by life history theory, this study was designed to identify how and why early exposure to caregiver intimate relationship instability uniquely predicts children's externalizing symptoms in the context of other dimensions of unpredictability characterized by residential and parental job transitions. Participants included 243 preschool children ( M age = 4.60 years) and their mothers who participated in 3 annual measurement occasio…
Child response processes as mediators of the association between caregiver intimate relationship instability and children’s externalizing symptoms
Guided primarily by life history theory, this study was designed to identify how and why early exposure to caregiver intimate relationship instability uniquely predicts children's externalizing symptoms in the context of other dimensions of unpredictability characterized by residential and parental job transitions. Participants included 243 preschool children ( M age = 4.60 years) and their mothers who participated in 3 annual measurement occasio…
Children’s attentional biases to emotions as sources of variability in their vulnerability to interparental conflict
Little is known about the role children’s processing of emotions plays in altering children’s vulnerability to interparental conflict. To address this gap, the present study examined whether the mediational cascade involving children’s exposure to interparental conflict, their insecure responses to interparental conflict, and their psychological problems varied as a function of children’s pre-existing biases to attend to angry, fearful, sad, and …
Understanding how and why effortful control moderates children’s vulnerability to interparental conflict
This study examined the moderating role of effortful control in the association between interparental conflict and externalizing problems in a diverse sample of preschool children ( N = 243; M age = 4.60 years). Using a multimethod, multi-informant, prospective design, findings indicated that the relation between interparental conflict and externalizing problems was only significant among children with poor effortful control. Children with high e…
The Vestiges of Childhood Interparental Conflict: Adolescent Sensitization to Recent Interparental Conflict
This study examined whether childhood interparental conflict moderated the mediational pathway involving adolescent exposure to interparental conflict, their negative emotional reactivity to family conflict, and their psychological problems in a sample of 235 children (Mage = 6 years). Significant moderated-mediation findings indicated that the mediational path among Wave 4 interparental conflict during adolescence, change in youth negative react…
Interparental conflict as a quadratic predictor of children’s reactivity to interparental conflict and school adjustment: Steeling effects or risk saturation
This study examined interparental conflict as a curvilinear predictor of children's reactivity to interparental conflict and, in turn, their school problems across three annual measurements. Participants included 243 preschool children (Mage = 4.60 years; 56% girls) and their parents from racially (e.g., 48% Black; 16% Latinx) diverse backgrounds. Interparental conflict was a significant quadratic predictor of children's emotional reactivity (β =…
The cognitive costs and advantages of children’s exposure to parental relationship instability: Testing an evolutionary-developmental hypothesis
Guided by evolutionary-developmental models, this study tested the hypothesis that children's exposure to parental relationship instability, defined by initiation and dissolution of caregiver intimate relationships, has both costs in cognitive impairments and benefits in enhanced learning skills. Participants included 243 mothers and their preschool children ( M age 4.60 years; 56% girls) from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds (e.g., 46% Blac…
Understanding heterogeneity in pathways between interparental conflict and children's involvement: The moderating role of affect-biased attention
The study examined the moderating role of children's affect-biased attention to angry, fearful, and sad adult faces in the link between interparental conflict and children's distinct forms of involvement. Participants included 243 preschool children (M age = 4.60 years, 56% female) and their parents from racially (48% African American, 43% White) and socioeconomically (median annual household income = $36,000) diverse backgrounds. Data collection…
Parent–child boundary dissolution and children’s psychological difficulties: A meta-analytic review
Boundary dissolution has broadly been defined as the breakdown of boundaries and loss of psychological distinctiveness in the parent-child subsystem. Qualitative reviews have highlighted the developmental and clinical value of examining boundary dissolution as a multidimensional construct. Though prior work suggests patterns share minimal variance, research has yet to quantitatively synthesize the weighted effect of distinct patterns. The primary…
Developmental stasis, sensitivity, and disturbance: Linking concepts to analytic methods using impulsivity and alcohol use
The goals of this article are to (a) describe and contrast conceptual characteristics of periods of developmental sensitivity, disturbance, and stasis, and (b) translate these concepts to testable analytic models with an example dataset. Although the concept of developmental sensitivity is widely known, the concepts of developmental stasis and disturbance have received less attention. We first define the concepts and their principles and then, us…
The legacy of harsh parenting: Enduring and sleeper effects on trajectories of externalizing and internalizing symptoms
Guided by developmental models examining the legacy of childhood caregiving environments, we examined the longitudinal pattern of associations between harsh parenting and children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms across late childhood to late adolescence. Participants included 199 youth (48.7% female, 65.3% White, 32.2% Black, 2.5% biracial) and their mothers and fathers from a diverse range of socioeconomic backgrounds. The study utili…
A process model of parental executive functioning as a spillover mechanism linking interparental conflict and parenting difficulties across parenting domains
There is a well-documented interdependency between destructive interparental conflict (IPC) and parenting difficulties (i.e., spillover effect), yet little is known about the mechanisms that "carry" spillover between IPC and parenting. Guided by a cascade model framework, the current study used a longitudinal, multimethod, multi-informant design to examine a process model of spillover that tested whether parental executive functioning (working me…
From Counting Dollars to Counting Sheep: Exploring Simultaneous Change in Economic Well-Being and Sleep among African American Adolescents
In the U.S.A., Black/African American adolescents disproportionately experience short and poor-quality sleep, and there is little understanding of why some experience decrements or improvements in sleep over time. Toward conducting culturally specific research and identifying processes that uniquely explain variability within a racial/ethnic group, we utilized a within-group design to examine socioeconomic status (SES) as a predictor of Black ado…
Lessons learned from witnessing constructive interparental conflict and the beneficial implications for children
This study examined children's emotion situation knowledge and social problem-solving abilities as mediators in the prospective link between constructive interparental conflict (IPC) and children's psychological adjustment in a sample of 238 preschool children ( M age = 4.38 years; 52% female children; 28% Black; 14% multiracial or other race; 16% Latinx) and their mothers. The methodological approach consisted of multiple methods and informants …
Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Reactivity and Their Coordination as Antecedents to the Cascade of Children's Callous-Unemotional Traits and Later Psychological Adjustment
This study examined whether a mediational cascade involving children's respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reactivity to a series of cognitive and socio-evaluative stressors, their callous-unemotional (CU) traits, and psychological adjustment was moderated by their cardiac pre-ejection period (PEP) reactivity. Using a multi-method, multi-informant design, 238 mothers and their preschool children (Mage = 4.38, 52% female; 68% White; 18% Black; 14% …
Sleeping through the ages: Developmental trajectories of actigraphy-derived sleep–wake patterns across adolescence and emerging adulthood
Sleep is a fundamental domain of development and has important implications for other key aspects of adaptation. Little is known about normative changes in sleep across adolescence and emerging adulthood and whether the change is linear or nonlinear. We examined growth trajectories of sleep across 9 years of development and individual differences in trajectories according to participants' race/ethnicity and sex assigned at birth. During each wave…
Developmental psychology (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (8 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Adolescent development (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)