| Caregiving Quality as a Predictor of Emotion Regulation in Early Childhood | Caregiving Quality as a Predictor of Emotion Regulation in Early Childhood | 2021 | Northrup, R., Sellers, T., & Dozier, M. [Faculty Sponsor: Mary Dozier] | <p><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:107%;font-family:calibri, sans-serif;">Children
who are adopted internationally or involved in the foster care system early in
life are at an increased risk for negative developmental outcomes due to
experiences with inadequate and inconsistent caregiving. The current study
examined whether caregiving quality, conceptualized as sensitivity and
intrusiveness, predicted children’s later emotion regulation. I hypothesized
that sensitive caregiving would be associated with better emotion regulation in
children, and that intrusive caregiving would be associated with worse emotion
regulation in children. Children adopted internationally (n = 74) and foster
children (n = 44) were enrolled in a randomized controlled trial testing the
efficacy of an attachment-based parenting program, and a sample of low-risk
children being raised by their biological parents were enrolled as a comparison
group (n = 25). Caregiving quality was assessed through semi-structured play
assessments when children were infants and toddlers. Children’s emotion
regulation was examined using a frustrating lab task called the Perfect Circle
Task when children were five years old. More sensitive caregiving was not found
to be significantly associated with better emotion regulation skills during the
frustration task than less sensitive caregiving, but more intrusive caregiving
was found to be associated with worse emotion regulation skills during the
frustration task than less intrusive caregiving. Results suggest that intrusive
caregiving may predict later emotion regulation outcomes in children.</span></p> | | https://udel.zoom.us/j/94272063355 | sts4s://publish.psych.udel.edu/attachmentUrl=https://publish.psych.udel.edu/undergraduate-posters-sub-site/Lists/Poster Day/Attachments/9/Rachel Northrup Poster PDF.pdf | | |
| Is Visual Comparison Associated with Recognition of Difference by Infants? | Is Visual Comparison Associated with Recognition of Difference by Infants? | 2021 | Finn, S., Lieberman, M., Reid, C., Rubin, J., Steren, R., Wood, C., & Quinn, P.C. [Faculty Sponsor: Paul C. Quinn] | <p><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:107%;font-family:calibri, sans-serif;">Prior
research has suggested that comparison facilitates category formation during
development by allowing participants to extract commonalities from members of a
category. In the present research, we asked whether comparison would also be
associated with recognition of difference. Using a spontaneous preference task,
Caucasian 3-month-old infants were presented with own- versus other-race face
pairs. Although group data did not indicate that the infants showed a
preference for the own-race faces as has been reported in previous
investigations, analyses of individual performance showed that the number of
switches between the own- and other-race faces displayed by the infants was
positively associated with their own-race preference scores. The findings are
consistent with the proposal that visual comparison is related to recognition
of difference and suggest an expanded role for comparison in
perceptual-cognitive development.</span></p> | | | sts4s://publish.psych.udel.edu/attachmentUrl=https://publish.psych.udel.edu/undergraduate-posters-sub-site/Lists/Poster Day/Attachments/10/Quinn Lab Poster PDF.pdf | | |
| The Ventral Midline Thalamus Mediates Successful Deliberation by Coordinating Prefrontal and Hippocampal Neural Activity | The Ventral Midline Thalamus Mediates Successful Deliberation by Coordinating Prefrontal and Hippocampal Neural Activity | 2021 | Stout, J.J., Hallock, H., Adiraju, S.S., Griffin, A.L. [Faculty Sponsor: Amy L. Griffin] | <p></p> | | https://capture.udel.edu/media/Stout%20et%20al/1_xe4kid6u | sts4s://publish.psych.udel.edu/attachmentUrl=https://publish.psych.udel.edu/undergraduate-posters-sub-site/Lists/Poster Day/Attachments/6/Suhaas Adiraju Poster PDF.pdf | | |
| Emotion Regulation and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Among Opioid-Dependent Pregnant Women | Emotion Regulation and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Among Opioid-Dependent Pregnant Women | 2021 | Hamill, T.M., Tabachnick, A.R., Labella, M., & Dozier, M. [Faculty Sponsor: Mary Dozier] | <p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman", serif;"></span></p><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:107%;font-family:calibri, sans-serif;">Substance
using parents may have emotion regulation problems that interfere with
parenting. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is associated with emotion
regulation in children and adults. We examined RSA and emotion regulation among
opioid-dependent pregnant women. As predicted, low resting RSA was associated
with more difficulties in emotion regulation than high resting RSA (r = -.32, p
= .03). The present study extended previous work on RSA and emotion regulation
to a sample of opioid-dependent women.</span> | | https://udel.zoom.us/j/96332121765 | sts4s://publish.psych.udel.edu/attachmentUrl=https://publish.psych.udel.edu/undergraduate-posters-sub-site/Lists/Poster Day/Attachments/7/Taylor Hamill Poster PDF.pdf | | |
| Fidelity and Effectiveness of ABC Implemented Through Telehealth: A Response to COVID-19 | Fidelity and Effectiveness of ABC Implemented Through Telehealth: A Response to COVID-19 | 2021 | Kipp, E., Schein, S.S., Roben, C.K.P., & Dozier, M. [Faculty Sponsor: Mary Dozier] | <p><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:107%;font-family:calibri, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:107%;font-family:calibri, sans-serif;">Home
visiting programs are a critical pathway for addressing early adversity in
children (Garner, 2013; Minkovitz et al., 2016), and the inability to deliver
in-person services due to the COVID-19 pandemic challenged the foundation of
implementation fidelity for home visiting programs across the globe. Attachment
and Biobehavioral Catch-Up (ABC) is an evidence-based home visiting
intervention designed to increase sensitivity in parents of children who have
experienced early adversity. ABC utilizes an active process of fidelity
monitoring and supervision focused on the active ingredient of ABC,
“in-the-moment” commenting (Caron et al., 2016a), which allows effectiveness to
be maintained amidst dissemination. In the current study, fidelity was examined
among parent coaches implementing ABC through telehealth in community settings.
Random 5-minute clips from 510 telehealth ABC session videos conducted by 91
parent coaches from 48 agencies were coded for their frequency and quality of
in-the-moment comments. Additionally, parental sensitivity change in 70 parents
who received ABC via telehealth was assessed through pre- and post-intervention
play assessments. On average, parent coaches exceeded ITM commenting fidelity
standards when implementing ABC through a telehealth format, and significant
effects on parental sensitivity, intrusiveness, and positive regard were
observed. ABC's preliminary effectiveness amidst a transition to telehealth was
attributed to the active fidelity monitoring and supervision process inherent
to ABC's dissemination. Future endeavors should include a randomized clinical
trial that compares fidelity and effectiveness outcomes between in-person ABC
and TeleABC. Further, TeleABC services should be kept in place after the
pandemic ends in order to reach families for whom in-person delivery is
impossible.</span></p> | | https://capture.udel.edu/media/Evan%20Kipp%20TeleABC/1_tqfggq7v | sts4s://publish.psych.udel.edu/attachmentUrl=https://publish.psych.udel.edu/undergraduate-posters-sub-site/Lists/Poster Day/Attachments/8/Evan Kipp Poster PDF.pdf | | |
| Do adaptation aftereffects associated with painful expressions differ as a function of race? | Do adaptation aftereffects associated with painful expressions differ as a function of race? | 2020 | Okorie, O., Drain, A., Lin, J., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. [Faculty Sponsor: Peter Mende-Siedlecki] | | | | sts4s://publish.psych.udel.edu/attachmentUrl=https://publish.psych.udel.edu/undergraduate-posters-sub-site/Lists/Poster Day/Attachments/4/Okorie-etal-Mende-Siedlecki--2020-Poster.pdf | | |
| Self-report as a moderator of racial bias in pain perception | Self-report as a moderator of racial bias in pain perception | 2020 | Turner, B., Goharzad, A., Lin, J., & Mende-Siedlecki, P. [Faculty Sponsor: Peter Mende-Siedlecki] | | | | sts4s://publish.psych.udel.edu/attachmentUrl=https://publish.psych.udel.edu/undergraduate-posters-sub-site/Lists/Poster Day/Attachments/5/Turner-etal-Mende-Siedlecki--2020-Poster.pdf | | |
| Sad but not fearful facial expressions restore recognition of other-race faces in infants following perceptual narrowing | Sad but not fearful facial expressions restore recognition of other-race faces in infants following perceptual narrowing | 2020 | Beichert, A., Johnson, K., Mayerson, S., Reid, C., Reynolds, R., Zografos, C., & Quinn, P.C. [Faculty Sponsor: Paul Quinn] | <p><br></p><p>A
recent investigation reported that perceptual narrowing for face race in
infants could be disrupted with faces that depict angry or happy facial
expressions (Quinn, Lee, Pascalis, & Xiao, 2020). Given that angry faces
pose threat and happy faces invite affiliation, the findings were interpreted
as evidence that the expressions motivated infants to encode face identity. The
current study was undertaken to explore this interpretation by examining
whether sad or fearful expressions could disrupt perceptual narrowing for face
race. The participants were Caucasian 6- and 9-month-olds who have been shown
to have difficulty discriminating among neutral Asian faces and between African
faces, respectively. The results were that the infants discriminated the
other-race faces when depicted with sad but not fearful facial expressions. The
findings provide further support that infants are processing the communicative
intent of the expressions. Infants may have encoded the identity of the sad
faces because those faces display a call for help. By contrast, fearful facial
expressions indicate an external threat, but may not provide motivation for
encoding face identity given that the threat is external to the individual
posing the expression.</p> | | | sts4s://publish.psych.udel.edu/attachmentUrl=https://publish.psych.udel.edu/undergraduate-posters-sub-site/Lists/Poster Day/Attachments/3/Beichert-etal-Quinn--2020-Poster.pdf | | |
| Hostile attributional bias and self-esteem as mechanisms linking earlier peer victimization and later internalizing symptoms | Hostile attributional bias and self-esteem as mechanisms linking earlier peer victimization and later internalizing symptoms | 2020 | Osicky, J. & Hubbard, J. [Faculty Sponsor: Julie Hubbard] | <p><br></p><p>Approximately
33% of American youth report serious instances of peer victimization. Peer victimization is linked to internalizing
problems, specifically anxiety and depression. The goal of the current study
was to evaluate hostile attributional bias (HAB) and self-esteem as mechanisms
linking earlier peer victimization and later internalizing problems. The study
leveraged longitudinal data to assess whether HAB and self-esteem at age 13
mediate the relations between peer victimization at age 10 and depressive and
anxious symptoms at age 15. Participants were 143 adolescents (mean age = 15.1
years; 52% female). At age 10, participants reported on their victimization
using the Comprehensive Scales of Peer Victimization (Morrow et al., 2014). At
age 13, participants completed a task assessing HAB (Kupersmidt, Stelter, &
Dodge, 2011) and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1989). At age 15,
participants reported on their depressive and anxious symptoms using the
Children’s Depression Inventory 2 (Kovacs, 2011) and the Multidimensional Anxiety
Scale for Children (March, 1997). Data were analyzed using path analysis in
Mplus Version 8 (Muthén & Muthén, 1998-2017). Victimization at age 10
positively predicts internalizing symptoms at age 15. Self-esteem at age 13
mediated relations between victimization at age 10 and both internalizing
symptoms at age 15. However, HAB did not serve as a mediator in the relations
between victimization and the internalizing symptoms.</p> | | https://capture.udel.edu/media/Osicky-Hubbard--2020-PosterPresentation/1_jbxk49rq | sts4s://publish.psych.udel.edu/attachmentUrl=https://publish.psych.udel.edu/undergraduate-posters-sub-site/Lists/Poster Day/Attachments/2/Joey Osicky.pdf | | |
| Preventative effects of valproic acid on outcomes associated with caregiver maltreatment | Preventative effects of valproic acid on outcomes associated with caregiver maltreatment | 2020 | Zimmerman, C., Collins, N., & Roth, T. [Faculty Sponsor: Tania Roth] | | | https://capture.udel.edu/media/Zimmerman-Collins-Roth--2020-PosterPresentation/1_msmsy71g | sts4s://publish.psych.udel.edu/attachmentUrl=https://publish.psych.udel.edu/undergraduate-posters-sub-site/Lists/Poster Day/Attachments/1/Zimmerman-Collins-Roth--2020-Poster.pdf | | |
