Melissa Sturge-Apple

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University of Rochester

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Melissa Sturge-Apple is a Professor at the University of Rochester, USA. Her research focuses on the interplay between family dynamics and children's mental health, particularly examining factors such as interparental conflict, parenting styles, and emotional development in children. Recent articles reflect her interests in developmental psychopathology, parental influences, and the implications of maternal experiences on child outcomes.

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?Interparental Conflict and Parenting?

Open Date: 2016-08-05

Close Date: 2021-07-31

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Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

Open Date: 2014-04-15

Close Date: 2020-03-31

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An Ethological Analysis of Children's Profiles of Security in Peer Contexts

Open Date: 2012-04-01

Close Date: 2014-12-31

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Emotional Processes in Families:New Methods Capturing Multiple Levels of Analysis

Open Date: 2010-06-01

Close Date: 2016-07-31

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An Ethological Analysis of Children's Emotional Security

Open Date: 2010-05-01

Close Date: 2016-08-31

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Patrick T. Davies

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Dante Cicchetti

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University of Minnesota System

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Debrielle Jacques

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University of Washington

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Erika Lunkenheimer

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Pennsylvania State University

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Zhi Li

University of Rochester

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Interparental Conflict and Power-Assertive Parenting: Attention Biases to Child Emotions as Indirect Factors

Why is constructive interparental conflict beneficial for children’s mental health? The role of effortful control and positive affect.

Patterns of father responsiveness to child distress and children’s socioemotional outcomes

Maternal alcohol dependence symptoms, maternal insensitivity to children’s distress, and young children’s blunted emotional reactivity

Family risk, parental cortisol contagion, and parenting: A process-oriented approach to spillover

Beyond form: The value of systems conceptualizations of function in increasing precision and novelty in the study of developmental psychopathology

Contextual risks, child problem-solving profiles, and socioemotional functioning: Testing the specialization hypothesis

Domain specificity of differential susceptibility: Testing an evolutionary theory of temperament in early childhood

Disentangling the relationship between callous-unemotional traits and unsupportive parenting through a developmental lens

Testing different sources of environmental unpredictability on adolescent functioning: ancestral cue versus statistical learning and the role of temperament

The importance of parent self‐regulation and parent–child coregulation in research on parental discipline

Understanding heterogeneity in pathways between interparental conflict and children's involvement: The moderating role of affect‐biased attention

Family-level antecedents of children’s patterns of reactivity to interparental conflict: Testing the reformulation of emotional security theory.

Maternal childhood maltreatment trauma resolution: Development of a novel narrative coding measure and implications for intergenerational parenting processes

Family instability, parenting, and child externalizing problems: Moderation by maternal sympathetic stress reactivity

Why does children’s temperamental exuberance increase their vulnerability to externalizing symptoms? A process-oriented approach

The moderating role of adrenocortical reactivity in the associations between interparental conflict, emotional reactivity, and school adjustment

Maternal and paternal unsupportive parenting and children's externalizing symptoms: The mediational role of children's attention biases to negative emotion

Collaborators (5)

Patrick T. Davies

Dante Cicchetti

Debrielle Jacques

Erika Lunkenheimer

Zhi Li

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