Category: Faculty Partner Research

January 17, 2023

Additive and synergistic relations of early mother–child and caregiver–child interactions and socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood

Prior theoretical and empirical studies have linked the first 3 years of children's life with later life outcomes. The current study is a registered report with two complementary research objectives: (1) examine to what extent stimulating and responsive interactions with...
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January 16, 2023

Breaking the cycle: How students can get out of bad sleep habits for the new semester

Large shifts in sleep cycles can bring about health problems, both mentally and physically. To help combat these issues, CFF Faculty Partner, Michelle Garrison has some tips for getting back into a regular sleep cycle.
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January 9, 2023

Moving beyond dosage and adherence: A protocol for capturing dimensions of active child engagement as a measure of fidelity for social-emotional learning interventions

Robert Duncan, David Purpura

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January 1, 2023

Marriage provides health benefits – and here’s why

It turns out that when it comes to health, married people have an edge, especially married men. But surely the act of walking down the aisle is not what provides this health advantage. So what exactly is at play?
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December 30, 2022

A longitudinal study on disordered eating in transgender and non-binary adolescents

There are multiple factors that may contribute to a higher risk of disordered eating in TGNB youth. Disordered eating behaviors can be a coping behavior associated with stigma from transphobia, dysphoria with one's sex assigned at birth, societal beauty expectations...
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December 20, 2022

Social Relationships and Cognitive Impairment In Later Life

With population aging and the growing population at-risk of cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, and related dementias, there is a need for a better understanding of how social factors may affect cognitive impairment.
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December 20, 2022

Dual Functionality in Later Life

Longevity and quality of life are core interests in gerontology, but debate has ensued as scholars have sought to integrate the two.
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December 13, 2022

Work-Life Flexibility Policies From a Boundary Control and Implementation Perspective: A Review and Research Framework

Although management research on work-life flexibility policies has occurred for over 40 years, it is underdeveloped with inconsistent results. We argue that this is due to theorizing that—but not measuring whether—policy use increases boundary control; a fragmented literature examining a...
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December 8, 2022

Within- and between-person associations among internalizing and externalizing problems during middle childhood

Internalizing and externalizing problems are likely to co-occur in childhood and are related to concurrent and prospective mental health outcomes. We examined the longitudinal relations among internalizing and externalizing problems during middle childhood
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December 1, 2022

Developmental pathways linking obesity risk and early puberty: The thrifty phenotype and fetal overnutrition hypotheses

We outline an operationalization and extension of the thrifty phenotype and fetal overnutrition hypotheses, two developmental hypotheses stemming from the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) perspective, for developmental pathways from preconception and prenatal risk through child growth to...
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