Kathleen S J Preston
Biographic Data
| ID | 93275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen S J Preston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen S J |
| FAMILY NAME | Preston |
| SIGNATURE | PRESTON K S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fullerton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0716-5599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Temperament in Middle Childhood: Relation to Childhood Happiness and to Happiness and Health Entering Middle Adulthood
Single mothers' perceptions of neighborhood social cohesion, parenting stress, adverse childhood experiences in early childhood and Black children's behavior problems in middle childhood and adolescen…
This study examined the roles of neighborhood social cohesion, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and parenting stress in early childhood on child behavioral outcomes in middle childhood and adolescence among socioeconomically disadvantaged Black families. To test a model linking perceptions of neighborhood social cohesion, single mothers' parenting stress, ACEs, and behavior problems in middle childhood and adolescence. We used four waves of …
Latent profile analysis of adolescent temperament: Relations to happiness and health in adulthood
INTRODUCTION: This study provides long-term evidence that profiles of temperament during adolescence are associated with happiness and health over two decades later. METHODS: Data are based on the ongoing Fullerton Longitudinal Study, a community-based sample in the United States. At 14 and 16 years, adolescents (N = 111; 52% male, 90% Euro-American) and their mothers (N = 105) completed the Dimensions of Temperament Survey-Revised, a scale desig…
Self-Efficacy Among Unmarried Black Mothers and Fathers of Young Children: A Pilot Study
Simultaneous Linking of Cross-Informant and Longitudinal Data Involving Positive Family Relationships
Measurement invariance is a prerequisite when comparing different groups of individuals or when studying a group of individuals across time. This assures that the same construct is assessed without measurement artifacts. This investigation applied a novel approach of simultaneous parameter linking to cross-sectional and longitudinal measures of the construct of positive family relationships. Previously, a scale to measure this construct in mother…
Applying the Nominal Response Model Within a Longitudinal Framework to Construct the Positive Family Relationships Scale
A psychometric analysis was conducted using the nominal response model under the item response theory framework to construct the Positive Family Relationships scale. Using data from the Fullerton Longitudinal Study, this scale was constructed within a long-term longitudinal framework spanning middle childhood through adolescence. Items tapping this construct were completed annually by mothers when children were aged 9 to 17 years. The scale measu…
Nonresident Fathers' Involvement with Young Black Children: A Replication and Extension of a Mediational Model
The study reported in this article used Fragile Families data to test a mediational model of the influences of nonresident black fathers' involvement with 492 low-income single mothers and their three-year-old children (time 3) on the mothers' psychological well-being and parenting adequacy and the children's socioemotional development at age 5 (time 5) as they prepared to enter elementary school. The findings generally replicated earlier researc…
A Measure of Prejudice Against Accented English (MPAAE): Scale Development and Validation
Though numerous experiments support the presence of linguistic prejudice toward English speakers with foreign accents, there is, to date, no self-report measure of such prejudice. To capture the multidimensional nature of linguistic prejudice, we created the Measure of Prejudice Against Accented English via using the nominal response model under the item response theory. The resulting 36-item scale, using an empirically derived response format, i…
Estimating the Nominal Response Model Under Nonnormal Conditions
The nominal response model (NRM), a much understudied polytomous item response theory (IRT) model, provides researchers the unique opportunity to evaluate within-item category distinctions. Polytomous IRT models, such as the NRM, are frequently applied to psychological assessments representing constructs that are unlikely to be normally distributed in the population. Unfortunately, models estimated using estimation software with the MML/EM algori…
Single Mothers, Nonresident Fathers, and Preschoolers’ Socioemotional Development: Social Support, Psychological Well-Being, and Parenting Quality
Using data from two waves of a short-term longitudinal study, the influences of mothers’ social support with respect to parenting from nonresident fathers and significant others on behavioral outcomes among poor and near-poor preschool-aged Black children were examined. The sample consisted of 99 single Black mothers—each with a preschool-aged child (ages 3 and 5 years old, respectively, at Time 1 and Time 2)—who were current and former welfare r…
Using the Nominal Response Model to Evaluate Response Category Discrimination in the PROMIS Emotional Distress Item Pools
The authors used a nominal response item response theory model to estimate category boundary discrimination (CBD) parameters for items drawn from the Emotional Distress item pools (Depression, Anxiety, and Anger) developed in the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information Systems (PROMIS) project. For polytomous items with ordered response categories, CBD parameters index the degree to which a particular dichotomous distinction (e.g., a re…
Single Parenting and Child Behavior Problems in Kindergarten
Two waves of data from a sample of 89 poor and near-poor single black mothers and their preschool children were used to study the influences of parenting stress, physical discipline practices, and nonresident fathers' relations with their children on behavior problems in kindergarten. The results indicate that higher levels of parent stress, more frequent spanking, and less frequent father-child contact at time 1 were associated with increased te…
What's the worst thing…?? gender-directed insults
Single Parenting and Child Behavior Problems in Kindergarten
Two waves of data from a sample of 89 poor and near-poor single black mothers and their preschool children were used to study the influences of parenting stress, physical discipline practices, and nonresident fathers' relations with their children on behavior problems in kindergarten. The results indicate that higher levels of parent stress, more frequent spanking, and less frequent father-child contact at time 1 were associated with increased te…
A Measure of Prejudice Against Accented English (MPAAE): Scale Development and Validation
Though numerous experiments support the presence of linguistic prejudice toward English speakers with foreign accents, there is, to date, no self-report measure of such prejudice. To capture the multidimensional nature of linguistic prejudice, we created the Measure of Prejudice Against Accented English via using the nominal response model under the item response theory. The resulting 36-item scale, using an empirically derived response format, i…
Nonresident Fathers' Involvement with Young Black Children: A Replication and Extension of a Mediational Model
The study reported in this article used Fragile Families data to test a mediational model of the influences of nonresident black fathers' involvement with 492 low-income single mothers and their three-year-old children (time 3) on the mothers' psychological well-being and parenting adequacy and the children's socioemotional development at age 5 (time 5) as they prepared to enter elementary school. The findings generally replicated earlier researc…
Single Mothers, Nonresident Fathers, and Preschoolers’ Socioemotional Development: Social Support, Psychological Well-Being, and Parenting Quality
Using data from two waves of a short-term longitudinal study, the influences of mothers’ social support with respect to parenting from nonresident fathers and significant others on behavioral outcomes among poor and near-poor preschool-aged Black children were examined. The sample consisted of 99 single Black mothers—each with a preschool-aged child (ages 3 and 5 years old, respectively, at Time 1 and Time 2)—who were current and former welfare r…
Single mothers' perceptions of neighborhood social cohesion, parenting stress, adverse childhood experiences in early childhood and Black children's behavior problems in middle childhood and adolescen…
This study examined the roles of neighborhood social cohesion, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and parenting stress in early childhood on child behavioral outcomes in middle childhood and adolescence among socioeconomically disadvantaged Black families. To test a model linking perceptions of neighborhood social cohesion, single mothers' parenting stress, ACEs, and behavior problems in middle childhood and adolescence. We used four waves of …
What's the worst thing…?? gender-directed insults
Single Parenting and Child Behavior Problems in Kindergarten
Two waves of data from a sample of 89 poor and near-poor single black mothers and their preschool children were used to study the influences of parenting stress, physical discipline practices, and nonresident fathers' relations with their children on behavior problems in kindergarten. The results indicate that higher levels of parent stress, more frequent spanking, and less frequent father-child contact at time 1 were associated with increased te…
Using the Nominal Response Model to Evaluate Response Category Discrimination in the PROMIS Emotional Distress Item Pools
The authors used a nominal response item response theory model to estimate category boundary discrimination (CBD) parameters for items drawn from the Emotional Distress item pools (Depression, Anxiety, and Anger) developed in the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information Systems (PROMIS) project. For polytomous items with ordered response categories, CBD parameters index the degree to which a particular dichotomous distinction (e.g., a re…
Single Mothers, Nonresident Fathers, and Preschoolers’ Socioemotional Development: Social Support, Psychological Well-Being, and Parenting Quality
Using data from two waves of a short-term longitudinal study, the influences of mothers’ social support with respect to parenting from nonresident fathers and significant others on behavioral outcomes among poor and near-poor preschool-aged Black children were examined. The sample consisted of 99 single Black mothers—each with a preschool-aged child (ages 3 and 5 years old, respectively, at Time 1 and Time 2)—who were current and former welfare r…
Estimating the Nominal Response Model Under Nonnormal Conditions
The nominal response model (NRM), a much understudied polytomous item response theory (IRT) model, provides researchers the unique opportunity to evaluate within-item category distinctions. Polytomous IRT models, such as the NRM, are frequently applied to psychological assessments representing constructs that are unlikely to be normally distributed in the population. Unfortunately, models estimated using estimation software with the MML/EM algori…
Applying the Nominal Response Model Within a Longitudinal Framework to Construct the Positive Family Relationships Scale
A psychometric analysis was conducted using the nominal response model under the item response theory framework to construct the Positive Family Relationships scale. Using data from the Fullerton Longitudinal Study, this scale was constructed within a long-term longitudinal framework spanning middle childhood through adolescence. Items tapping this construct were completed annually by mothers when children were aged 9 to 17 years. The scale measu…
Nonresident Fathers' Involvement with Young Black Children: A Replication and Extension of a Mediational Model
The study reported in this article used Fragile Families data to test a mediational model of the influences of nonresident black fathers' involvement with 492 low-income single mothers and their three-year-old children (time 3) on the mothers' psychological well-being and parenting adequacy and the children's socioemotional development at age 5 (time 5) as they prepared to enter elementary school. The findings generally replicated earlier researc…
A Measure of Prejudice Against Accented English (MPAAE): Scale Development and Validation
Though numerous experiments support the presence of linguistic prejudice toward English speakers with foreign accents, there is, to date, no self-report measure of such prejudice. To capture the multidimensional nature of linguistic prejudice, we created the Measure of Prejudice Against Accented English via using the nominal response model under the item response theory. The resulting 36-item scale, using an empirically derived response format, i…
Simultaneous Linking of Cross-Informant and Longitudinal Data Involving Positive Family Relationships
Measurement invariance is a prerequisite when comparing different groups of individuals or when studying a group of individuals across time. This assures that the same construct is assessed without measurement artifacts. This investigation applied a novel approach of simultaneous parameter linking to cross-sectional and longitudinal measures of the construct of positive family relationships. Previously, a scale to measure this construct in mother…
Self-Efficacy Among Unmarried Black Mothers and Fathers of Young Children: A Pilot Study
Latent profile analysis of adolescent temperament: Relations to happiness and health in adulthood
INTRODUCTION: This study provides long-term evidence that profiles of temperament during adolescence are associated with happiness and health over two decades later. METHODS: Data are based on the ongoing Fullerton Longitudinal Study, a community-based sample in the United States. At 14 and 16 years, adolescents (N = 111; 52% male, 90% Euro-American) and their mothers (N = 105) completed the Dimensions of Temperament Survey-Revised, a scale desig…
Single mothers' perceptions of neighborhood social cohesion, parenting stress, adverse childhood experiences in early childhood and Black children's behavior problems in middle childhood and adolescen…
This study examined the roles of neighborhood social cohesion, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and parenting stress in early childhood on child behavioral outcomes in middle childhood and adolescence among socioeconomically disadvantaged Black families. To test a model linking perceptions of neighborhood social cohesion, single mothers' parenting stress, ACEs, and behavior problems in middle childhood and adolescence. We used four waves of …
Temperament in Middle Childhood: Relation to Childhood Happiness and to Happiness and Health Entering Middle Adulthood
Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (5 works) · Longitudinal study (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Psychometrics (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works)