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Biological systems and the development of self-regulation: integrating behavior, genetics, and psychophysiologyMartha Ann Bell
Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 28:409-20. 2007..We conclude with a discussion of the implications for deviations in the development of this complex construct and suggestions for future research...
An adoption study of the etiology of teacher and parent reports of externalizing behavior problems in middle childhoodK Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403 1227, USA
Child Dev 70:144-54. 1999..Parents' ratings showed evidence for moderate amounts of heritability and shared environment for both aggression and delinquency...
Parent-child dyadic mutuality and child behavior problems: an investigation of gene-environment processesKirby Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403 1227, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:1171-9. 2004..Furthermore, individual differences in children's mutuality and behavior problems involve transactions between genetic and environmental influences. Behavioral genetic designs are useful for elucidating these processes...
Cognitive change in aging: identifying gene-environment correlation and nonshared environment mechanismsKirby Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 1227, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 60:24-31. 2005....
The development of attitudes about physical punishment: an 8-year longitudinal studyKirby Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 1227, USA
J Fam Psychol 17:351-60. 2003..However, there was no correlation among adolescents for whom physical maltreatment in early or middle childhood was suspected...
Annotation: Recent research examining the role of peer relationships in the development of psychopathologyK Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403 1227, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 42:565-79. 2001....
Parent-child mutuality in early childhood: two behavioral genetic studiesK Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403 1227, USA
Dev Psychol 36:561-70. 2000..These findings were replicated in a 2nd study of 102 pairs of adoptive and biological siblings...
Parenting and child behavioral adjustment in early childhood: a quantitative genetic approach to studying family processesK Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403 1227, USA
Child Dev 71:468-84. 2000..The implications of this pattern of findings for genetic research on family processes are discussed...
Mother- and father-child mutuality in Anglo and Indian British families: a link with lower externalizing problemsKirby Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 1227, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 32:609-20. 2004..Greater mutuality, when coupled with dyadic positive affect, was associated with fewer externalizing problems (R2 = .24). This pattern held across gender, ethnic, and sociocconomic groups...
Approach/positive anticipation, frustration/anger, and overt aggression in childhoodKirby Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, 109 Williams Hall 0436, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
J Pers 78:991-1010. 2010..AP statistical prediction of aggression was substantially mediated by FA, an effect that was accounted for by underlying genetic and nonshared environmental influences...
Conduct problems, IQ, and household chaos: a longitudinal multi-informant studyKirby Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 50:1301-8. 2009....
Deviant peer affiliation and problem behavior: a test of genetic and environmental influencesBernadette Marie Bullock
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, 97401, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 34:29-41. 2006..Parameter estimates differed by rater and method, however. Results accentuate the imperative to attend to method effects inherent in MTMM behavioral geneticresearch...
A longitudinal behavioral genetic analysis of task persistenceKirby Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, VA 24061, USA
Dev Sci 9:498-504. 2006..Most of the stability was accounted for by genetic influences, whereas most of the change was accounted for by nonshared environment, including an association with observed differential maternal warm supportive behavior...
Maternal working memory and reactive negativity in parentingKirby Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Psychol Sci 21:75-9. 2010..The effect was replicated in a post hoc secondary data analysis of a sample of adoptive mothers and sibling children. Results implicate working memory in the etiology of harsh reactive parenting...
Longitudinal studies of anger and attention span: context and informant effectsJungmeen Kim
Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
J Pers 78:419-40. 2010..The findings suggested that anger was more prone to context effects and informant effects than attention...
Working memory and parent-rated components of attention in middle childhood: a behavioral genetic studyZhe Wang
Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Behav Genet 42:199-208. 2012....
A cross-sectional behavioral genetic analysis of task persistence in the transition to middle childhoodKirby Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, OR, USA
Dev Sci 8:F21-6. 2005..Cross-sectional analysis indicated a strong developmental shift from shared environment variance among younger children to additive genetic variance in older children...
Socioeconomic risk moderates the link between household chaos and maternal executive functionKirby Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, 109 Williams Hall 0436, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
J Fam Psychol 26:391-9. 2012..The findings implicate household chaos as a powerful statistical predictor of maternal executive function in socioeconomically distressed contexts...
Dynamic changes in anger, externalizing and internalizing problems: attention and regulationJungmeen Kim
Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 52:156-66. 2011..Using a longitudinal design, we examined attention span as a moderator of reciprocal links between changes in anger and changes in externalizing and internalizing problems from 4.5 to 11 years of age...
Anger/frustration, task persistence, and conduct problems in childhood: a behavioral genetic analysisKirby Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:80-7. 2007..Individual differences in conduct problems arise in part from proneness to anger/frustration and poor self-regulation of behavior. However, the genetic and environmental etiology of these connections is not known...
Maternal executive function, harsh parenting, and child conduct problemsKirby Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 53:1084-91. 2012..Conclusion: Maternal executive function is critical to minimizing harsh parenting in the context of challenging child behavior, but this self-regulation process may not operate well in chaotic environments...
The association between parental warmth and control in thirteen cultural groupsKirby Deater-Deckard
Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, VA, USA
J Fam Psychol 25:790-4. 2011..Children and parents completed questionnaires and interviews regarding mother and father control and warmth. Greater warmth was associated with more control, but this association varied widely between cultural groups...
Support across two generations: children's closeness to grandparents following parental divorce and remarriageGretchen Lussier
Department of Psychology, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 1227, USA
J Fam Psychol 16:363-76. 2002..Greater closeness to grandparents was associated with fewer adjustment problems...
Genetic effects on children's conversational language useLaura S DeThorne
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 901 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 51:423-35. 2008..The present study examined the extent of genetic and environmental influences on individual differences in children's conversational language use...
Task orientation, parental warmth and SES account for a significant proportion of the shared environmental variance in general cognitive ability in early childhood: evidence from a twin studyStephen A Petrill
Department of Biobehavioral Health, Center for Developmental and Health Genetics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, USA
Dev Sci 7:25-32. 2004..Additional analyses suggested that SES and parental warmth mediated about two-thirds of the shared environmental covariance between task engagement and cognitive skills...
Do risk factors for problem behaviour act in a cumulative manner? An examination of ethnic minority and majority children through an ecological perspectiveNaama Atzaba-Poria
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Israel
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:707-18. 2004..In addition, ethnic differences between minority (i.e., Indian) and majority (i.e., English) families were examined...
Physical discipline and children's adjustment: cultural normativeness as a moderatorJennifer E Lansford
Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 0545, USA
Child Dev 76:1234-46. 2005....
Ethnic differences in the link between physical discipline and later adolescent externalizing behaviorsJennifer E Lansford
Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:801-12. 2004....
A genetic analysis of individual differences in dissociative behaviors in childhood and adolescenceKathryn A Becker-Blease
Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham 03824, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:522-32. 2004..Stable individual differences in dissociative behaviors may represent a dissociative tendency trait that varies in the population independent of the influence of trauma...
Children's history of speech-language difficulties: genetic influences and associations with reading-related measuresLaura Segebart DeThorne
Department of Speech and Hearing Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL 61820, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 49:1280-93. 2006....
Complementary theoretical and empirical approaches to studying the role of attention in the development of psychopathologyKirby Deater-Deckard
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:423-4. 2006
Reading skills in early readers: genetic and shared environmental influencesStephen A Petrill
Center for Developmental and Health Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, USA
J Learn Disabil 39:48-55. 2006..Furthermore, shared environmental effects estimated in twins were generally similar in magnitude to adoptive sibling correlations, suggesting highly replicable estimates across different study designs...
Editorial: new perspectives on aggressionKirby Deater-Deckard
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 49:357-8. 2008
