Parent’s Beliefs About Children’s Emotions and Parents’ Emotion-related Conversations with Their Children
The goals of the current study were to describe parents’ emotion socialization patterns and to assess relations between parents’ emotion-related beliefs and socialization behaviors during conversations with their children.
Enhancing Children’s Social Emotional Functioning Through Virtual Game-based Delivery of Social Skills Training
An initial evaluation of the efficacy of Zoo U, an interactive online game for elementary-age children that translates evidence-based social emotional learning strategies into tailored social problem-solving scenes in a virtual world.
Differences Between Japanese and U.S. Children’s Performance on “Zoo U”: A Game-Based Social Skills Assessment
This study tests whether and how performance on a digital game-based social skills assessment tool, "Zoo U," differed for children in the United States and Japan across six core social skills...
Parents’ Emotion-related Beliefs, Behaviors, and Skills Relate to Children’s Recognition of Emotion in the Family
We hypothesized that children develop emotion recognition skill as a function of parents' own emotion-related beliefs, behaviours, and skills...
Anger in the Family: Individual and Dyadic Contributions
We addressed three questions about anger in the family, including the derivation of anger, the presence of anger contagion, and the degree to which family members share perceptions about anger in the family...
The impact of children’s social adjustment on academic outcomes
This study tested whether social adjustment added to the prediction of academic outcomes above and beyond prior academic functioning...
Selection and socialization of internalizing problems in middle childhood
This study investigated selection and socialization as contributors to homophily of internalizing problems during middle childhood...
A prospective investigation of teacher preference and student perceptions of the student-teacher relationship
This study investigated teacher preference, the degree to which a teacher likes a specific student, as a predictor of students' perceptions of teacher preference as well as conflict and support in the student-teacher relationship...
Improving the social-behavioral adjustment of adolescents: The effectiveness of a social skills group intervention
We evaluated the efficacy of a social skills training intervention designed to improve adolescents’ social, emotional and behavioral adjustment, Social Skills Group Intervention-Adolescent (S.S.GRIN-A)...
Effectiveness of a parent training program for improving children’s social behavior
We tested the efficacy of a social skills training program for the parents of school-aged children experiencing socio-emotional problems...