Child, Youth, and Family Studies, Department of
Faculty Publications, Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies
2020
Provider reported implementation of nutrition-related practices in childcare centers and family childcare homes in rural and urban Nebraska, Dipti Dev, Aileen Garcia, David A. Dzewaltowski, Susan B. Sisson, Lisa Franzen-Castle, Zainab Rida, Natalie A. Williams, Carly Hillburn, Danae Dinkel, Deepa Srivastava, Christina Burger, Emily Hulse, Donnia Behrends, and Natasha Frost
Child-parent interactions in American and Turkish families: Examining measurement invariance analysis of child-parent relationship scale, Elsa Lucia Escalante-Barrios, Sonia Mariel Suarez-Enciso, Helen Raikes, Dawn Davis, Aileen Garcia, Mubeccel Gonen, Mefharet Veziroglu-Celik, and Ramle Gul Hazar
Does context matter? A multilevel analysis of neighborhood disadvantage and children's sleep health, Carlyn Graham, Eric N. Reither, Gabriele Ciciurkaite, Dipti Dev, and Jamison Fargo
Typically Developing Preschoolers’ Behavior Toward Peers with Disabilities in Inclusive Classroom Contexts, Soo-Young Hong, Jungwon Eum, Yanjie Long, Chaorong Wu, and Greg Welch
The Impact of Responsive Feeding Practice Training on Teacher Feeding Behaviors in Tribal Early Care and Education: The Food Resource Equity and Sustainability for Health (FRESH) Study, Kaysha Sleet, Susan B. Sisson, Dipti A. Dev, Charlotte Love, Mary B. Williams, Leah A. Hoffman, and Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan
2019
Sliding into an equitable lesson, Kelley E. Buchheister 6872059, Christa Jackson, and Cynthia E. Taylor
What, how, who: Developing Mathematical Discourse, Kelley E. Buchheister, Christa Jackson, and Cynthia E. Taylor
(Mis)Communicating with Geographic Information System Mapping: Part 1--Choosing Units of Representation, Rodrigo Cantarero, Maria deGuzman, Sarah Taylor, Soo-Young Hong, and Jeong-Kyun Choi
(Mis)Communicating with Geographic Information System Mapping: Part 2—Determining Data Cutoffs, Rodrigo Cantarero, Maria deGuzman, Sarah Taylor, Soo-Young Hong, and Jeong-Kyun Choi
Children of Mumbai’s Brothels: Investigating Developmental Prospects, Primary Relationships, and Service Provision, Rochelle L. Dalla, Sarah Erwin, and Lee Kreimer
An Innovative, Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Promoting Child Health: The Reggio Emilia Approach and the Ecological Approach to Family Style Dining Program, Dipti Dev, Anna Burton, Brent A. McBride, Carolyn Edwards, and Aileen Garcia
Contextual Factors Influence Professional Development Attendance Among Child Care Providers in Nebraska, Dipti Dev, Aileen S. Garcia, Alison Tovar, Holly Hatton-Bowers, Lisa Franzen-Castle, Zainab Rida, Linda Reddish, Jasmin Smith, Christy Burger, Danae Dinkel, Donnia Behrends, Emily Hulse, and Susan M. Sheridan
Going beyond defining: Preschool educators' use of knowledge in their pedagogical reasoning about vocabulary instruction, Julie Dwyer and Rachel E. Schachter
Adult attachment and testosterone reactivity: Fathers' avoidance predicts changes in testosterone during the strange situation procedure, Robin S. Edelstein, Kristi Chin, Ekjyot K. Saini, Patty X. Kuo, Oliver C. Schultheiss, and Brenda L. Volling
Do not forget families and households when addressing urban refugee education, Sarah C. Erwin, Jennifer Sewall, Julie A. Tippens, Dulo Nyaoro, and Helen M. Miamidian
Determinants of Physical Activity for Latino and White Middle School-Aged Children, Aileen Garcia, Shinya Takahashi, Mindy Anderson-Knott, and Dipti Dev
The Roles of Parents in Shaping Fathering Across Generations in Cebu, Philippines, Lee T. Gettler, Patty X. Kuo, Abet Bas, and Judith B. Borja
Sociosexuality, testosterone, and life history status: Prospective associations and longitudinal changes among men in Cebu, Philippines, Lee T. Gettler, Patty X. Kuo, Stacy Rosenbaum, Josephine L. Avila, Thomas W. McDade, and Christopher W. Kuzawa
Is one secure attachment enough? Infant cortisol reactivity and the security of infant-mother and infant-father attachments at the end of the first year, Patty X. Kuo, Ekjyot K. Saini, Elizabeth Tengelitsch, and Brenda L. Volling
Recognizing and promoting interdisciplinary collaboration, leadership, and impact: award for interdisciplinary excellence in mathematics education (IEME award), Yeping Li and W. James Lewis
The perception of school food-service professionals on the implementation of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010: a mixed-methods study, Zainab Rida, Elisha Hall, Saima Hasnin, Jessie Coffey, and Dipti Dev
Teachers’ Perspectives on Year Two Implementation of a Kindergarten Readiness Assessment, Rachel E. Schachter, Erin E. Flynn, Amy R. Napoli, and Shayne B. Piasta
Guidelines for Selecting Professional Development for Early Childhood Teachers, Rachel E. Schachter, Hope K. Gerde, and Holly Hatton-Bowers
What Is the Landscape of Early Childhood Coaching in Nebraska?, Rachel E. Schachter, Hayley Jackson, Lisa L. Knoche, and Holly Hatton-Bowers
The Impact of Responsive Feeding Practice Training on Teacher Feeding Behaviors in Tribal Early Care and Education: The Fresh Study, Kaysha Sleet, Susan B. Sisson, Dipti Dev, Charlotte Love, Mary B. Williams, Leah A. Hoffman, and Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan
Exploring rural and urban Go NAP SACC trained child care providers perceptions and needs regarding the promotion of physical activity and healthy eating, Kailey Snyder, Zainab Rida, Emily Hulse, Dipti Dev, and Danae Dinkel
Comparison of Parent and Child Ratings of Fruit and Vegetable Liking to Assess Parent Accuracy as Proxy Reporters, Virginia C. Stage, Carrie Downing, Archana V. Hegde, Dipti Dev, Amanda D. Peterson, and L. Suzanne Goodell
Supporting strong families and capable communities through cross-national research, Nathan C. Taylor, Deborah K. Hartman, Richard Bischoff, Alan Hayes, Paul R. Springer, and David Perkins
Youths’ Perspectives of Experiential Learning Delivery: Findings from a Multistate 4-H Youth Program, Sarah Taylor, K. Anh Do, Shen Qin, Yan Xia, and Maria Rosario de Guzman
Generational Perceptions of Support Among Congolese Refugees in Urban Tanzania, Julie A. Tippens
Urban Congolese Refugees’ Social Capital and Community Resilience During a Period of Political Violence in Kenya: A Qualitative Study, Julie A. Tippens
2018
Examining the roles of child temperament and teacher-child relationships as predictors of Turkish children’s social competence and antisocial behavior, Ibrahim H. Acar, Traci Kutaka, Kathleen Moritz Rudasill, Julia C. Torquati, Robert J. Coplan, and Süleyman Yıldız
GRUP ORTAMLARINDAKİ OYUNUN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ (GOOD) GÖZLEM FORMUNUN GEÇERLİK VE GÜVENİRLİK ÇALIŞMASI / VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY STUDY OF THE PLAY ASSESSMENT FOR GROUP SETTINGS (PAGS), Emine AHMETOĞLU, Manolya AŞIK ÖZTÜRK, and İbrahim Hakkı Acar
CHILDREN’S EMOTION REGULATION AND ATTACHMENT TO PARENTS: PARENTAL EMOTION SOCIALIZATION AS MODERATOR, Emine Ahmetoglu, Gökçen Ilhan Ildiz, Ibrahim H. Acar, and Amy J. Encinger
A Qualitative Evaluation to Improve the Co-Parenting for Successful Kids Program, Jeong-Kyun Choi, Holly Hatton-Bowers, Anna Burton, Gail L. Brand, Linda Reddish, and Lisa M. Poppe
Needs Assessment for Informing Extension Professional Development Trainings on Teaching Adult Learners, Nathan W. Conner, Dipti Dev, and Katherine Krause
Validation of vulnerability markers of dysfunctions in the socioemotional development of infants, Daniel Ignacio da Silva, Débora Falleiros de Mello, Renata Ferreira Takahashi, Cody S. Hollist, Verônica de Azevedo Mazza, and Maria de La Ó Ramallo Veríssimo
Introduction to Parenting from Afar and the Reconfiguration of Family Across Distance, Maria Rosario de Guzman, Jill Brown, and Carolyn Edwards
Fictive Kinships and the Remaking of Family Life in the Context of Paid Domestic Work: The Case of Philippine Yayas, Maria Rosario de Guzman, Aileen S. Garcia, and Minerva D. Tuliao
How to Create Videos for Extension Education: An Innovative Five-Step Procedure, Dipti A. Dev, Kimberly A. Blitch, Holly Hatton-Bowers, and Samantha Ramsay
Improving the Nutrition and Screen Time Environment through Self-assessment in Family Childcare Homes in Nebraska, Dipti A. Dev, Natalie A. Williams, Iheoma Iruka, Aileen S. Garcia, Yage Guo, Irina Patwardhan, Katrina Cummings, Zainab Rida, Emily Hulse, and Ami Sedani
Improving the Physical Activity and Outdoor Play Environment of Family Child Care Homes in Nebraska Through Go Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care, Danae Dinkel, Dipti A. Dev, Yage Guo, Emily Hulse, Zainab Rida, Ami Sedani, and Brian Coyle
An empirical investigation of the dimensionality of the physical literacy environment in early childhood classrooms, Jaclyn M. Dynia, Rachel E. Schachter, Shayne B. Piasta, Laura M. Justice, Ann A. O'Connell, and Christina Yeager Pelatti
Impact of an Extension Social Media Tool Kit on Audience Engagement, Aileen Garcia, Dipti A. Dev, Colin M. McGinnis, Tyler Thomas, and
Predictors of Parent Engagement Based on Child Care Providers’ Perspectives, Aileen Garcia, Dipti A. Dev, and Virginia C. Stage
Mapping Quality of Life in Nebraska: Migration Rates, Aileen S. Garcia, Rodrigo Cantarero, Grant Daily, Maria Rosario T. de Guzman, Jeong-Kyun Choi, Soo-Young Hong, and Sarah Taylor
Fatherhood and Psychobiology in the Philippines: Perspectives on Joint Profiles and Longitudinal Changes of Fathers’ Estradiol and Testosterone, Lee T. Gettler, Patty X. Kuo, and Sonny Agustin Bechayda
Comparing SNP Panels and Statistical Methods for Estimating Genomic Breed Composition of Individual Animals in Ten Cattle Breeds, Jun He, Yage Guo, Jiaqi Xu, Hao Li, Anna Fuller, Richard G. Tait Jr., Xiao-Lin Wu, and Stewart Bauck
Financial Socialization of College Students: Domain-General and Domain-Specific Perspectives, Ji Hyun Kim and Julia C. Torquati
Fathers’ Cortisol and Testosterone in the Days around Infants’ Births Predict Later Paternal Involvement, Patty X. Kuo, Julia M. Braungart-Rieker, Jennifer E. Burke Lefever, Mallika S. Sarma, Molly O'Neill, and Lee T. Gettler
Gender role beliefs, work-family conflict, and father involvement after the birth of a second child, Patty X. Kuo, Brenda L. Volling, and Richard Gonzalez
Gray space and green space proximity associated with higher anxiety in youth with autism, Lincoln R. Lawson, Brian Barger, Scott Ogletree, Julia C. Torquati, Steven Rosenberg, Cassandra Johnson Gaither, Jodie Marie Bartz, Andrew Gardner, Eric Moody, and Anne R. Schutte
Observed Quality and Consistency of Fifth Graders’ Teacher–Student Interactions: Associations With Feelings, Engagement, and Performance in School, Jennifer LoCasale-Crouch, Faiza Jamil, Robert C. Pianta, Kathleen Moritz Rudasill, and Jamie DeCoster
Assessment of Nutrition Knowledge of Childcare Providers Regarding the Implementation of the 2017 CACFP Meal Pattern Update, Zainab Rida, Christy Burger, Dipti A. Dev, Jasmin Smith, and Saima Hasmin
Exploring the Links between Early Life and Young Adulthood Social Experiences and Men’s Later Life Psychobiology as Fathers, Mallika S. Sarma, Patty X. Kuo, Sonny Agustin Bechayda, Christopher W. Kuzawa, and Lee T. Gettler
How Do Differing Stakeholders Perceive Instances of Literacy Instruction?, Rachel E. Schachter, Ann Matthews, and Shayne B. Piasta
What Happens During Language and Literacy Coaching? Coaches’ Reports of Their Interactions With Educators, Rachel E. Schachter, Melissa M. Weber-Mayrer, Shayne B. Piasta, and Ann A. O’Connell
Understanding Parental Ethnotheories and Practices About Healthy Eating: Exploring the Developmental Niche of Preschoolers, Deepa Srivastava, Julia C. Torquati, Maria Rosario de Guzman, and Dipti A. Dev
Mapping Quality of Life in Nebraska: Population Distribution by Race, Ethnicity, and Age, Sarah Taylor, Maria Rosario T. de Guzman, Grant Daily, Rodrigo Cantarero, Soo-Young Hong, Aileen S. Garcia, Jeong-Kyun Choi, and Yan Xia
Resilience in American Indian and Alaska Native Public Health: An Underexplored Framework, Nicolette I. Teufel-Shone, Julie A. Tippens, Hilary C. McCrary, John E. Ehiri, and Priscilla R. Sanderson
2017
Examining the Role of Teacher Presence and Scaffolding in Preschoolers’ Peer Interactions, Ibrahim H. Acar, Soo-Young Hong, and Chaorong Wu
The role of child temperament on low‐income preschool children’s relationships with their parents and teachers, Ibrahim H. Acar, Julia C. Torquati, Amy J. Encinger, and Amy Colgrove
Maths Games: A Universal Design approach to mathematical reasoning, Kelley E. Buchheister, Christa Jackson, and Cynthia E. Taylor
Mapping Quality of Life in Nebraska: The Geographic Distribution of Poverty, Grant Daily, Rodrigo Cantarero, Maria Rosario de Guzman, Soo-Young Hong, Sarah Taylor, Aileen Garcia, Jeong-Kyun Choi, and Yan Ruth Xia
“After your honor is gone …”: Exploration of Developmental Trajectories and Life Experiences of Women Working in Mumbai’s Red-Light Brothel Districts, Rochelle L. Dalla and Lee Kreimer
Elementary preservice teachers’ attitudes and pedagogical strategies toward hypothetical shy, exuberant, and average children, Qizhen Deng, Guy Trainin, Kathleen Moritz Rudasill, Irina Kalutskaya, Stephanie Wessels, Julia C. Torquati, and Robert J. Coplan
Engaging Parents to Promote Children’s Nutrition and Health: Providers’ Barriers and Strategies in Head Start and Child Care Centers, Dipti A. Dev, Courtney Byrd-Williams, Samantha Ramsay, Brent A. McBride, Deepa Srivastava, Ashleigh L. Murriel, Chrisa Arcan, and Anna M. Adachi-Mejia
Implementing the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Benchmarks for Nutrition Education for Children: Child-Care Providers’ Perspectives, Dipti A. Dev, Virginia Carraway-Stage, Daniel J. Schober, Brent A. McBride, Car Mun Kok, and Samantha Ramsay
Providers perspectives on self-regulation impact their use of responsive feeding practices in child care, Dipti A. Dev, Katherine E. Speirs, Natalie A. Williams, Samantha Ramsay, Brent A. McBride, and Holly Hatton-Bowers
He’s just content to sit: a qualitative study of mothers’ perceptions of infant obesity and physical activity, Danae Dinkel, Kailey Snyder, Anastasia Kyvelidou, and Victoria Molfese
Teaching for tomorrow: An exploratory study of prekindergarten teachers’ underlying assumptions about how children learn, Erin E. Flynn and Rachel E. Schachter
Patterns of Psychotropic Medication at Admission for Youth in Residential Care, Jonathan C. Huefner, Gail L. Smith, Jay L. Ringle, Amy L. Stevens, W. Alex Mason, and Gilbert R. Parra
“We are Two of the Lucky Ones”: Experiences with Marriage and Wellbeing for Same-Sex Couples, Heather R. Kennedy, Rochelle L. Dalla, and Steven Dreesman
His, Hers, or Theirs? Coparenting After the Birth of a Second Child, Patty X. Kuo, Brenda L. Volling, and Richard Gonzalez
VII. Developmental Trajectories of Children’s Emotional Reactivity after the Birth of a Sibling, Patty X. Kuo, Brenda L. Volling, Richard Gonzalez, Wonjung Oh, and Tianyi Yu
Classroom Readiness for Successful Inclusion: Teacher Factors and Preschool Children’s Experience with and Attitudes toward Peers with Disabilities, Kyong-Ah Kwon, Soo-Young Hong, and Hyun-Joo Jeon
Multiple perspectives on cognitive development: Radical constructivism, cognitive constructivism, sociocultural theory, and critical theory, Meir Muller, Kelley E. Buchheister, and Gloria Boutte
Effectiveness of Large-Scale, State-Sponsored Language and Literacy Professional Development on Early Childhood Educator Outcomes, Shayne B. Piasta, Laura M. Justice, Ann A. O'Connell, Susan A. Mauck, Melissa M. Weber-Mayrer, Rachel E. Schachter, Kristin S. Farley, and Caitlin F. Spear
Assessing Preschool Professionals’ Learning Experiences in Ohio: What Have We Learned?, Shayne B. Piasta, Susie Mauck, Rachel E. Schachter, Caitlin F. Spear, Kristin S. Farley, Melissa M. Weber-Mayrer, Laura M. Justice, and Ann A. O’Connell
Bridging the Gap between Data and Instruction to Promote School Readiness, Lucki M. Ratsavong, Maureen J. Myrtil, Mihaiela R. Guglu, and Rachel E. Schachter
Early Childhood Teachers’ Pedagogical Reasoning About How Children Learn During Language and Literacy Instruction, Rachel E. Schachter
Teachers’ experiences with a state-mandated kindergarten readiness assessment, Rachel E. Schachter, Tara M. Strang, and Shayne B. Piasta
Teachers’ perspectives on the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment in year 2: Easier to administer but what role can it play in instruction?, Rachel E. Schachter, Tara M. Strang, and Shayne B. Piasta
Mathematical creativity for the youngest school children. Kindergarten to third grade teachers’ interpretations of what it is and how to promote it., Yinjing Shen and Carolyn P. Edwards
‘Why I Sent My Child Away’: Culturally Structured Motivations for Long-distance Parenting, Deepa Srivastava and Maria Rosario de Guzman
Adolescent Perceptions of Dating Violence: A Qualitative Study, Sarah Taylor, Carrie A. Calkins, Yan Ruth Xia, and Rochelle L. Dalla
“I Have a Hippopotamus!”: Preparing Effective Early Childhood Environmental Educators, Julia C. Torquati, Jennifer Leeper Miller, Erin Hamel, Soo-Young Hong, Susan Sarver, and Michelle Rupiper
Attentional Demands of Executive Function Tasks in Indoor and Outdoor Settings: Behavioral and Neuroelectrical Evidence, Julia C. Torquati, Anne R. Schutte, and John Kiat
Parental Autonomy Granting and School Functioning among Chinese Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Adolescents’ Cultural Values, Cixin Wang, Kieu Anh Do, Leiping Bao, Yan Ruth Xia, and Chaorong Wu
Role of food preoccupation and current dieting in the associations of parental feeding practices to emotional eating in young adults: A moderated mediation study, Natalie A. Williams, Dipti A. Dev, Maren Hankey, and Kimberly A. Blitch
Preschool children’s biophilia and attitudes toward nature: The effect of personal experiences, Ruddy E. Yanez, Bronwyn S. Fees, and Julia C. Torquati
2016
The Correlates of Turkish Preschool Preservice Teachers’ Social Competence, Empathy and Communication Skills, Emine Ahmetoglu and Ibrahim H. Acar
A Little Change Can Make a Big Difference, Kelley E. Buchheister
Parent-Child Book-Reading Styles, Emotional Quality, and Changes in Early Head Start Children's Cognitive Scores., Keely Cline and Carolyn P. Edwards
‘Let’s Work Together Towards Children’s Nutrition’: Building Bridge Between Child Care Providers and Parents for Promoting Child Health, Dipti A. Dev, Courtney Byrd-Williams, Samantha Ramsay, Brent A. McBride, Ashleigh L. Murriel, Chrisa Arcan, and Anna M. Adachi-Mejia
“Great Job Cleaning Your Plate Today!” Determinants of Child-Care Providers’ Use of Controlling Feeding Practices: An Exploratory Examination, Dipti A. Dev, Brent A. McBride, Katherine E. Speirs, Kimberly A. Blitch, and Natalie A. Williams
Learning the Language of Nature: Young Children as Mathematical Thinkers, Carolyn P. Edwards and Courtney Boise
瑞吉欧·艾米利亚的教师研究： 一个充满活力并不断演变的角色的精髓 / Teacher Research in Reggio Emilia: Essence of a Dynamic, Evolving Role (Chinese translated version)., Carolyn P. Edwards and Lella Gandini
Retrospective Review and Contemporary Development of the Reggio Emilia Early Childhood Educational System: An Interview with Carolyn Pope Edwards, Carolyn P. Edwards and Lixin Ren
Child and Parent Report of Parenting as Predictors of Substance Use and Suspensions from School, Charles B. Fleming, W. Alex Mason, Ronald W. Thompson, Kevin P. Haggerty, and Thomas Jai. Gross