Amanda W. Harrist

Oklahoma State University

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Laura Hubbs‐Tait

Oklahoma State University

Glade Topham

Kansas State University

Melanie C. Page

Salford Royal Hospital

Lenka H. Shriver

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Tay Kennedy

Oklahoma State University

Julie M. Rutledge

Louisiana Tech University

Taren Swindle

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

John E. Bates

Indiana University

Kenneth A. Dodge

Duke University

Gregory S. Pettit

Auburn University

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Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red

Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition

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University of Oklahoma

Oklahoma State University at Tulsa

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Psychosocial Factors in Children's Obesity: Examples From An Innovative Line of Inquiry

Child Development Perspectives (2017)

Amanda W. Harrist Glade Topham Laura Hubbs‐Tait Lenka H. Shriver Taren Swindle

In recent years, researchers and policymakers have recognized that obesity in childhood is not simply a medical problem, but is a complex social and psychological phenomenon. Our research team used an interpersonal and intrapersonal risk model to examine the psychosocial aspects of obesity among rural children. In this article, we describe how the global study of children's obesity has broadened over the last 10 to 15 years, and we present our model of interpersonal and intrapersonal risk factors, which includes complex pathways with many psychosocial variables. We then describe a large prospective longitudinal study of children in grades 1 through 4, and highlight findings from five studies guided by this model. This work illustrates opportunities for developmental scientists and practitioners to join transdisciplinary teams to develop more effective prevention and intervention programs for children.

10.1111/cdep.12245

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Family Interaction Styles as Predictors of Children's Competence: The Role of Synchrony and Nonsynchrony.

Amanda W. Harrist

This study examined relations among parent-child interaction style and children's social behavior at school. A total of 158 children were observed for 4 hours in their homes the summer before their kindergarten year. Interactions with mothers and fathers were rated in terms of their engagement reciprocity and affective tone. Interactions were then classified as positively synchronous, negatively synchronous, or nonsynchronous. Children's peer group behavior (competence, aggression, and sotial withdrawal) was assessed via teacher reports. Multiple significant correlations were found between the occurrence of each type of parent-child interaction and the three behavioral measures, particularly for mothers. Next, concordance between mother-child and father-child style of interaction was assessed. Finally, a typological analysis revealed that it is not just the existence of one style of interaction that may facilitate or impede the child's social development. It was found, for example, that children who engaged in high rates of positive synchrony in conjunction with high rates of nonsynchrony were more aggressive than other children. Furthermore, there is evidence that optimal patterns of interaction for mothers and their children may differ from those of father-child dyads. Contains two tables and four figures. (Author) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ***********************************************************************

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Maternal depression and socio-economic status moderate the parenting style/child obesity association

Public Health Nutrition (2009)

Glade Topham Melanie C. Page Laura Hubbs‐Tait Julie M. Rutledge Tay Kennedy

The purpose of the study was to test the moderating influence of two risk factors, maternal depression and socio-economic status (SES), on the association between authoritarian and permissive parenting styles and child obesity.Correlational, cross-sectional study. Parenting style was measured with the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (PSDQ). Maternal depression was measured using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). BMI-for-age percentile was used to categorize children by weight status (children with BMI-for-age > or = 95th percentile were classified as obese). SES was computed from parent education and occupational status using the four-factor Hollingshead index.Rural public schools in a mid-western state in the USA.One hundred and seventy-six mothers of first-grade children (ninety-one boys, eighty-five girls) enrolled in rural public schools.Both maternal depression and SES were found to moderate the permissive parenting style/child obesity association, but not the authoritarian/child obesity association. For depressed mothers, but not for non-depressed mothers, more permissive parenting was predictive of child obesity. Similarly more permissive parenting was predictive of child obesity among higher SES mothers, but not for lower SES mothers.Maternal depression and SES interact with permissive parenting style to predict child obesity. Future research should examine the relationship among these variables using a longitudinal design.

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10.1017/s1368980009992163

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Predictors of Maternal Concern and Accuracy of Maternal Perceptions of Child's Weight in 1^st Graders

The FASEB Journal (2015)

Lenka H. Shriver Julie M. Rutledge Taren Swindle Amanda W. Harrist Laura Hubbs‐Tait

Mothers influence children's lifestyle habits and maternal concern (MC) about child weight may have negative outcomes (e.g., restriction). The purpose of this study was to identify predictors of MC about child weight in a sample of 431 mothers of 1 st graders from 29 schools. The Child Feeding Questionnaire was utilized to assess MC, maternal perception (MP) of child's weight and maternal self‐reported weight status. Children's weight status was determined using direct measurements and the established BMI‐for‐age percentile cut‐offs for 3 categories: 1) normal weight; 2) overweight, or 3) obese. Linear regression was conducted to determine if MC about child weight was predicted by MP of child weight, maternal self‐reported weight status, child weight status and child gender. The regression model was significant ( R 2 = .33, p < .001). Maternal self‐reported weight status ( β = .13), child weight ( β = .51) and child gender ( β = .11; all p s < .01) were significant predictors of MC but MP of child weight was not ( β = ‐.003, p = .94). A secondary analysis further explored why MP of child weight was not related to MC. MP of child weight was assessed using 3 categories (overestimate; match; underestimate). Child weight was misconceived by 27% of mothers (all underestimated). Findings confirmed the hypothesized MC predictors, except for MP of child weight. Because MP of child weight may influence feeding strategies and the child's perceptions of self, further research examining weight‐related concerns and perceptions of mothers in relation to child's body or self‐esteem is warranted.

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10.1096/fasebj.29.1_supplement.731.3

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Family Resilience: Moving into the Third Wave

Family Relations (2015)

Carolyn S. Henry Amanda Sheffield Morris Amanda W. Harrist

Family resilience has progressed through two waves and is poised for Wave 3. During Waves 1 and 2, family resilience perspectives were conceptualized, researched, and applied as a strengths‐based approach focused on positive family adaptation despite significant risk using an integration of concepts from individual resilience, general systems perspectives on families, and family stress theory. For Wave 3, the authors advocate for increased consistency in terminology and present the family resilience model ( FRM ) within which existing models interface with family adaptive systems (meaning systems, emotion systems, control systems, maintenance systems, and family stress‐response systems). The authors also argue for increased focus on trajectories and cascades, and enhanced prevention, intervention, and policy. The authors provide a hypothetical case study applying the FRM .

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10.1111/fare.12106

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“You can’t say you can’t play”: intervening in the process of social exclusion in the kindergarten classroom

Early Childhood Research Quarterly (2003)

Amanda W. Harrist K.Denise Bradley

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10.1016/s0885-2006(03)00024-3

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Dynamic changes in parent affect and adolescent cardiac vagal regulation: A real-time analysis.

Journal of Family Psychology (2015)

Lixian Cui Amanda Sheffield Morris Amanda W. Harrist Robert E. Larzelere Michael M. Criss

The current study explored the role of parents' negative and positive affect in adolescent respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reactivity during a parent-adolescent conflict discussion task and the moderating effects of adolescent sex and age. Questionnaire data were collected from 206 adolescents (10-18 years of age; M = 13.37 years) and their primary caregivers (83.3% biological mothers). Electrocardiogram and respiration data were collected from adolescents, and RSA variables were computed. Parent affect was coded during the conflict discussion task. Multilevel modeling was used to distinguish the between- and within-individual effects of parent affect on adolescent RSA. Results indicated that observed within-parent-teen dyad anger was negatively associated with adolescent RSA, controlling for previous-minute RSA level, particularly among adolescents 13 years and older. In addition, observed between-dyad positive affect was positively linked to RSA for both boys and girls when previous-minute RSA level was controlled. Within-dyad positive affect was positively related to girl's RSA only. These findings suggest that expressions of positive affect may be related to better vagal regulation (RSA increases), whereas expressions of anger may be related to poor vagal regulation (RSA decreases) during social engagement.

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10.1037/fam0000067

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Family Caregiving

Emerging issues in family and individual resilience (2017)

Whitney A. Bailey Amanda W. Harrist

10.1007/978-3-319-64783-8

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