SARA JAFFEE

Summary

Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Differences in early childhood risk factors for juvenile-onset and adult-onset depression
    Sara R Jaffee
    Institute of Psychiatry, Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, 111 Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, England, UK
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 59:215-22. 2002
  2. ncbi Social, emotional, and academic competence among children who have had contact with child protective services: prevalence and stability estimates
    Sara R Jaffee
    Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:757-65. 2007
  3. ncbi Nature X nurture: genetic vulnerabilities interact with physical maltreatment to promote conduct problems
    Sara R Jaffee
    Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Dev Psychopathol 17:67-84. 2005
  4. ncbi Gene-environment correlations: a review of the evidence and implications for prevention of mental illness
    S R Jaffee
    Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Mol Psychiatry 12:432-42. 2007
  5. ncbi The limits of child effects: evidence for genetically mediated child effects on corporal punishment but not on physical maltreatment
    Sara R Jaffee
    Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Dev Psychol 40:1047-58. 2004
  6. ncbi Physical maltreatment victim to antisocial child: evidence of an environmentally mediated process
    Sara R Jaffee
    University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 113:44-55. 2004
  7. ncbi Sensitive, stimulating caregiving predicts cognitive and behavioral resilience in neurodevelopmentally at-risk infants
    Sara R Jaffee
    Departmnet of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Dev Psychopathol 19:631-47. 2007
  8. ncbi When parents have a history of conduct disorder: how is the caregiving environment affected?
    Sara R Jaffee
    Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 115:309-19. 2006
  9. ncbi Individual, family, and neighborhood factors distinguish resilient from non-resilient maltreated children: a cumulative stressors model
    Sara R Jaffee
    Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Child Abuse Negl 31:231-53. 2007
  10. ncbi Effects of the family environment: gene-environment interaction and passive gene-environment correlation
    Thomas S Price
    Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Dev Psychol 44:305-15. 2008

Research Grants

  1. Stability and change in resilience to maltreatment
    SARA JAFFEE; Fiscal Year: 2006

Detail Information

Publications22

  1. ncbi Differences in early childhood risk factors for juvenile-onset and adult-onset depression
    Sara R Jaffee
    Institute of Psychiatry, Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, 111 Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, England, UK
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 59:215-22. 2002
    ..This study is the first to distinguish prospectively between juvenile- and adult-onset cases of MDD in a representative birth cohort followed up from childhood into adulthood...
  2. ncbi Social, emotional, and academic competence among children who have had contact with child protective services: prevalence and stability estimates
    Sara R Jaffee
    Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:757-65. 2007
    ..To estimate the prevalence and stability of social, emotional, and academic competence in a nationally representative sample of children involved with child protective services...
  3. ncbi Nature X nurture: genetic vulnerabilities interact with physical maltreatment to promote conduct problems
    Sara R Jaffee
    Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Dev Psychopathol 17:67-84. 2005
    ..Certain genotypes may promote resistance to trauma. Physically maltreated children whose first-degree relatives engage in antisocial behavior warrant priority for therapeutic intervention...
  4. ncbi Gene-environment correlations: a review of the evidence and implications for prevention of mental illness
    S R Jaffee
    Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Mol Psychiatry 12:432-42. 2007
    ..Prevention efforts must address the possibility of confounding between rGE and gene-environment interaction (G x E)...
  5. ncbi The limits of child effects: evidence for genetically mediated child effects on corporal punishment but not on physical maltreatment
    Sara R Jaffee
    Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Dev Psychol 40:1047-58. 2004
    ..The authors conclude that risk factors for maltreatment are less likely to reside within the child and more likely to reside in characteristics that differ between families...
  6. ncbi Physical maltreatment victim to antisocial child: evidence of an environmentally mediated process
    Sara R Jaffee
    University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 113:44-55. 2004
    ..The findings support the hypothesis that physical maltreatment plays a causal role in the development of children's antisocial behavior and that preventing maltreatment can prevent its violent sequelae...
  7. ncbi Sensitive, stimulating caregiving predicts cognitive and behavioral resilience in neurodevelopmentally at-risk infants
    Sara R Jaffee
    Departmnet of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Dev Psychopathol 19:631-47. 2007
    ....
  8. ncbi When parents have a history of conduct disorder: how is the caregiving environment affected?
    Sara R Jaffee
    Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 115:309-19. 2006
    ..The cumulative consequences of early-onset conduct disorder and assortative mating for antisocial behavior may explain the long-term effects of conduct disorder on young adult functioning...
  9. ncbi Individual, family, and neighborhood factors distinguish resilient from non-resilient maltreated children: a cumulative stressors model
    Sara R Jaffee
    Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Child Abuse Negl 31:231-53. 2007
    ..characteristics distinguish resilient from non-resilient maltreated children? Do children's individual strengths promote resilience even when children are exposed to multiple family and neighborhood stressors (cumulative stressors model)?..
  10. ncbi Effects of the family environment: gene-environment interaction and passive gene-environment correlation
    Thomas S Price
    Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Dev Psychol 44:305-15. 2008
    ....
  11. ncbi Effects of family violence on psychopathology symptoms in children previously exposed to maltreatment
    Andrea Kohn Maikovich
    Department of Psychology, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Child Dev 79:1498-512. 2008
    ..Implications for research and policy are discussed...
  12. ncbi Posttraumatic stress symptoms and trajectories in child sexual abuse victims: an analysis of sex differences using the national survey of child and adolescent well-being
    Andrea Kohn Maikovich
    Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 37:727-37. 2009
    ..Implications for theory and intervention are discussed...
  13. ncbi Sex differences in childhood sexual abuse characteristics and victims' emotional and behavioral problems: findings from a national sample of youth
    Andrea Kohn Maikovich-Fong
    University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Child Abuse Negl 34:429-37. 2010
    ..The second objective was to test for sex differences in how these abuse characteristics were associated with victims' emotional and behavioral problems...
  14. ncbi Pathways to adversity in young adulthood among early childbearers
    Sara R Jaffee
    Institute of Psychiatry, King s College, London
    J Fam Psychol 16:38-49. 2002
    ..However, early childbearing exacerbated the difficulties associated with these risk factors...
  15. ncbi Influence of adult domestic violence on children's internalizing and externalizing problems: an environmentally informative twin study
    Sara R Jaffee
    Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, England
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 41:1095-103. 2002
    ....
  16. ncbi Life with (or without) father: the benefits of living with two biological parents depend on the father's antisocial behavior
    Sara R Jaffee
    Institute of Psychiatry, King s College, London, UK
    Child Dev 74:109-26. 2003
    ..Marriage may not be the answer to the problems faced by some children living in single-parent families unless their fathers can become reliable sources of emotional and economic support...
  17. ncbi Research review: DSM-V conduct disorder: research needs for an evidence base
    Terrie E Moffitt
    Duke University, USA
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 49:3-33. 2008
    ..We outline specific research questions and study designs needed to build the lacking evidence base for or against proposed changes to DSM-V conduct disorder...
  18. ncbi Strong genetic effects on cross-situational antisocial behaviour among 5-year-old children according to mothers, teachers, examiner-observers, and twins' self-reports
    Louise Arseneault
    Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:832-48. 2003
    ..Genetic etiology is unknown because most research with young children focuses on environmental risk factors, and the few existing studies of young twins used only mothers' reports of behaviour, which may be biased...
  19. ncbi Intergenerational relationships in young adulthood and their life course, mental health, and personality correlates
    Jay Belsky
    Birkbeck University of London, Families and Social Issues, London, United Kingdom
    J Fam Psychol 17:460-71. 2003
    ..Results are discussed in terms of the openness of the parent-child relationship in adulthood to further development...
  20. ncbi Origins of individual differences in theory of mind: from nature to nurture?
    Claire Hughes
    Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, UK
    Child Dev 76:356-70. 2005
    ..Possible underlying proximal mechanisms are discussed, including maternal speech and mind-mindedness, sibling interactions, and peer influences...
  21. ncbi Intergenerational transmission of warm-sensitive-stimulating parenting: a prospective study of mothers and fathers of 3-year-olds
    Jay Belsky
    Institute for the Study of Children, Families, and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom
    Child Dev 76:384-96. 2005
    ..Results are discussed in terms of supportive versus harsh parenting, mother-father differences, and the characteristics of the sample...
  22. ncbi Cumulative prevalence of psychiatric disorder in youths
    Sara R Jaffee
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 44:406-7. 2005

Research Grants2

  1. Stability and change in resilience to maltreatment
    SARA JAFFEE; Fiscal Year: 2006
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