Investigating longitudinal pathways to dysregulation: the role of anomalous parenting behavior

Dozier, MaryThe current study investigated longitudinal associations between unresolved parental attachment status, anomalous parenting behavior, parent-child attachment quality, and child dysregulation as part of an ongoing randomized controlled trial investigating the efficacy of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC; Dozier, Bick, & Bernard, 2011). Specifically, the current study examined whether parental attachment status assessed pre-intervention and anomalous parenting behavior and parent-child attachment quality measured post-intervention predicted dysregulation when children were 3- and 4-years-old. A total of 109 parent-child dyads were included in the current study. Parents randomized to receive ABC demonstrated lower levels of parental withdrawal after completion of the intervention than parents randomized to receive the control condition. Changes in parental withdrawal mediated the association between intervention group and child disorganized attachment. Affective communication errors and disorientation predicted child dysregulation when children were 4 years old. Findings point to the continued efficacy of ABC in improving parenting quality, as well as to the dysregulating role affective communication errors have on children’s development.University of Delaware, Department of Psychological and Brain SciencesPh.D

Examining Adolescents\u27 Mental Health Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The current study characterized the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders on adolescents’ internalizing symptoms and assessed predictors of adolescents’ internalizing symptoms during the pandemic. Seventy-nine adolescents (18 autistic, 61 nonautistic) and their parents who participated in a previous study and were at least 10 years old (M = 13.8, SD = 1.7) were invited to participate in three online follow-up surveys post-stay-at-home order (May through November 2020). Measures of children’s anxiety and depressive symptoms, parenting practices, family togetherness, conflict, financial problems, and parental mental health during the pandemic were collected. Nonautistic adolescents experienced a significant decrease in anxiety symptoms across the beginning of the pandemic and a significant increase in depressive symptoms from pre- to post-stay-at-home order. Permissive parenting and financial problems predicted adolescents’ depressive symptoms. Parental mental health difficulties and permissive parenting predicted adolescents’ anxiety symptoms. Results underscore the need to support parents and youth

SEGUE : a spectroscopic survey of 240,000 stars with g=14-20

The Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE) Survey obtained approximate to 240,000 moderate-resolution (R similar to 1800) spectra from 3900 angstrom to 9000 angstrom of fainter Milky Way stars (14.0 10 per resolution element, stellar atmospheric parameters are estimated, including metallicity, surface gravity, and effective temperature. SEGUE obtained 3500 deg(2) of additional ugriz imaging (primarily at low Galactic latitudes) providing precise multicolor photometry (sigma(g, r, i) similar to 2%), (sigma(u, z) similar to 3%) and astrometry (approximate to 0 ''.1) for spectroscopic target selection. The stellar spectra, imaging data, and derived parameter catalogs for this survey are publicly available as part of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7