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Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo, postdoctoral scholar in Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar’s Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab, chaired the first DEI Committee-Sponsored symposium during the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology’s 2024 annual meeting.
Penn State researchers affiliated with the Child Study Center are participating in the Big Ten Early Learning Alliance.
"The present paper aims to provide an introduction and practical guide to starting researchers in the field to facilitate the use of MET in psychological research with a wide range of age groups."
The professorship is part of a $1 million gift to support a faculty member focused on enhancing the health and well-being of vulnerable children, especially survivors of child maltreatment.
On September 29th, the Child Study Center hosted a Fall 2024 Welcome Event for new and returning graduate students.
"In this cross-sectional study of 498 youth (ages 8–13, 52% girls, 77% with history of child maltreatment (CM) investigation), sex-differentiated associations between self-reported nicotine use and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) were explored."
"The current paper sought to progress the field of child maltreatment and trauma research forward by reviewing several lines of research demonstrating why the use of a binary yes/no child maltreatment measurement approach is problematic."
Do abuse and neglect cause behavior problems among children or do behavior problems among children cause abuse and neglect?
Rina Das Eiden and Jenae Neiderhiser take reins of 25-year-old CSC from longtime director Karen L. Bierman.
A good night’s sleep is essential for children’s health and development, but childhood sleep patterns may also be linked to future substance use.
An interdisciplinary research team from the Penn State College of Health and Human Development recently found that, despite the risk, many pregnant women in the United States do not know how much water they should consume and were not tracking their water intake.
They say that laughter is the best medicine, but it could be a good parenting tool too, according to a new study led by researchers from Penn State.
"This study was the first to examine pupillary responses of parents and their 8-to-12-year-old children to dynamic emotional facial expressions as an index of physiological arousal and attention allocation."
The researchers found that among pregnant women, common barriers to receiving medication treatment included doctors’ hesitance to prescribe these medications to pregnant patients; limited access to resources in rural areas; and difficulty navigating complex, decentralized health systems.
Keller has been recognized for her creative and innovative approach to her research, taking known theories and methods and applying them in different ways to discover new information about children’s eating behaviors.
This study sought to advance our understanding of how observed child self-regulation, parenting, and their interaction were associated with children’s dynamic physiological stress reactivity indexed by respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reactivity trajectories.
In early childhood, parents play a critical role in helping their children develop their emotion regulation skills, that is, the skills to label, understand, and manage emotions.
"This study documents the prevalence of ACEs by gender and their association with HIV risk factors and assesses depressive symptoms as mediating this relationship."
Children who report being more empathetic are more likely to show signs of poorer health in the face of more interparental conflict than less empathetic children, according to a new study led by researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development.
With decades of research, Turrisi shares insights on the developmental factors influencing alcohol use among adolescents and emerging adults, exploring the transition from high school to college, peer environments, and alarming data on blackout drinking and alcohol use disorder.
"This study examines how depressive and anxiety symptoms change over the time leading up to and after menarche to better understand the role of puberty in mental health."
A team of researchers at Oregon Health & Science University received a $16 million grant to advance children’s mental health care using machine learning, the university announced.
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of prenatal nicotine exposure on both direct and indirect obesity measures, with both sex and diet as factors.