Child, Youth, and Family Studies, Department of
Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications
2010
Executive function skills of 6–8 year olds: Brain and behavioral evidence and implications for school achievement, Victoria J. Molfese, Peter J. Molfese, Dennis L. Molfese, Kathleen Moritz Rudasill, Natalie Armstrong, and Gillian Starkey
Infant Temperament, Maternal Personality, and Parenting Stress as Contributors to Infant Developmental Outcomes, Victoria J. Molfese, Kathleen Moritz Rudasill, Jennifer L. Beswick, Jill L. Jacobi-Vessels, Melissa C. Ferguson, and Jamie M. White
Parent Engagement and School Readiness: Effects of the Getting Ready Intervention on Preschool Children’s Social-Emotional Competencies, Susan M. Sheridan Dr., Lisa Knoche, Carolyn P. Edwards, James A. Bovaird, and Kevin A. Kupzyk
Risk Factors for Poor Attendance in a Family-based Pediatric Obesity Intervention Program for Young Children, Natalie A. Williams, Mace Coday, Grant Somes, Frances A. Tylavsky, Phyllis A. Richey, and Marion E. Hare
Optimism and Pessimism in Children with Cancer and Healthy Children: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Youth Life Orientation Test and Relations with Health-Related Quality of Life, Natalie A. Williams, Genevieve Davis, Miriam Hancock, and Sean Phipps
2009
Professional Development to Support Parent Engagement: A Case Study of Early Childhood Practitioners, Jill R. Brown, Lisa L. Knoche, Carolyn P. Edwards, and Susan M. Sheridan Dr.
Relation of Caregiver Alcohol Use to Unintentional Childhood Injury, Amy Damashek, Natalie A. Williams, Kenneth Sher, and Lizette Petterson
Conventional Morality, Maria Rosario de Guzman
Postconventional Morality, Maria Rosario de Guzman
Preconventional Morality, Maria Rosario T. de Guzman
Promoting parent partnership in Head Start: A qualitative case study of teacher documents from a school readiness intervention project., Carolyn P. Edwards, Tara Hart, Kelly Rasmussen, Y. M. Haw, and Susan M. Sheridan
Factors Influencing Familial Decision-Making Regarding Human Papillomavirus Vaccination, Heather L. Gamble, James L. Klosky, Gilbert R. Parra, and Mary E. Randolph
AUSTRALIAN FAMILIES, CULTURES, AND ENVIRONMENTS: An Annotated Bibliography, Judi Geggie, John DeFrain, Nikki DeFrain, Greg Blyton, and Leanne Holt
Trajectories of PTSD and Substance Use Disorders in a Longitudinal Study of Personality Disorders, Meghan E. McDevitt-Murphy, Gilbert R. Parra, Carlos M. Grilo, Thomas H. McGlashan, Andrew E. Skodol, M. Tracie Shea, Shirley Yen, Charles A. Sanislow, John G. Gunderson, and John C. Markowitz
The Early Development of Gender Differences, Matthew H. McIntyre and Carolyn P. Edwards
Professional Development in Early Childhood Programs: Process Issues and Research Needs, Susan M. Sheridan, Carolyn P. Edwards, Christine A. Marvin, and Lisa L. Knoche
Engaging Latinos in Culturally Specific Educational Programming: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Paul R. Springer, Cody S. Hollist, and Karen Buchfink
Effects of Marital Quality on Children in Brazilian Families, Stephen V. Stutzman, Richard B. Miller, Cody S. Hollist, and Olga G. Falceto
2008
“It’s a choice, simple as that”: Youth Reasoning for Sexual Abstinence or Activity, Rochelle L. Dalla
Prosocial Behaviors in Context: Examining the Role of Children’s Social Companions, Maria Rosario de Guzman, Gustavo Carlo, and Carolyn P. Edwards
Context Influences Preschool Children's Decisions to Include a Peer with a Physical Disability in Play, Karen E. Diamond, Soo-Young Hong, and Huifang Tu
FILASTROCCA PRESCHOOL IN PISTOIA, ITALY: Promoting Early Literacy through Books and the Imagination: A Conversation with Alga Giacomelli (Library Teacher),, Carolyn P. Edwards and Lella Gandini
PARENT ENGAGEMENT AND SCHOOL READINESS: PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS IN EARLY LEARNING, Carolyn P. Edwards, Susan M. Sheridan Dr., and Lisa Knoche
Food insecurity and maternal depression in rural, low-income families: A longitudinal investigation, Catherine Huddleston-Casas, Richard Charnigo, and Leigh Ann Simmons
Experiences in Nature: Pathways to Standards, Jennifer Leeper Miller and Jennifer Benson Gerdes
Getting Ready: Promoting School Readiness through a Relationship-Based Partnership Model, Susan M. Sheridan, Christine Marvin, Lisa Knoche, and Carolyn P. Edwards
2007
Providers’ Perspectives on Troublesome Overusers of Medical Services, Richard Bischoff, Cody S. Hollist, JoEllen Patterson, Lee Williams, Layne Prest, and Matthew D. Barkdull
Culture-Related Strengths Among Latin American Families: A Case Study of Brazil, Gustavo Carlo, Silvia Koller, Marcela Raffaelli, and Maria Rosario de Guzman
IT TAKES TIME: IMPACTS OF EARLY HEAD START THAT LEAD TO REDUCTIONS IN MATERNAL DEPRESSION TWO YEARS LATER, Rachel Chazan-Cohen, Catherine Ayoub, Barbara Alexander Pan, Lori Roggman, Helen Raikes, Lorraine McKelvey, Leanne Whiteside-Mansell, and Andrea Hart
Nurturing Care for China’s Orphaned Children, Janice N. Cotton, Carolyn P. Edwards, Wen Zhao, and Jerònia Muntaner Gelabert
Students Learn about Documentation throughout Their Teacher Education Program, Carolyn P. Edwards, Susan Churchill, Mary Gabriel, Ruth Heaton, Julie Jones-Branch, Christine Marvin, and Michelle Rupiper
NURTURING CARE FOR CHINA’S ORPHANED CHILDREN: HALF THE SKY FOUNDATION BABY SISTERS AND LITTLE SISTERS PROGRAMS, Carolyn P. Edwards, Janice N. Cotton, Wen Zhao, Jerònia Muntaner Gelabert, and Jenny Bowen
Marital Satisfaction and Depression: A Replication of the Marital Discord Model in a Latino Sample, Cody S. Hollist, Richard Miller, Olga G. Falceto, and Carmen Luiza C. Fernandes
Attrition Bias, Richard B. Miller and Cody S. Hollist
Frequency of heavy drinking and perceived peer alcohol involvement: Comparison of influence and selection mechanisms from a developmental perspective, Gilbert R. Parra, Jennifer L. Krull, Kenneth J. Sher, and Kristina M. Jackson
Family income and attitudes toward older people in China: comparison of two age cohorts, Xiaolin Xie, Yan Ruth Xia, and Xiaofan Liu
Chinese Family Strengths and Resiliency, Anqi Xu, Xiaolin Xie, Wenli Liu, Yan Ruth Xia, and Dalin Liu
Impacts of Parents’ Divorce on Chinese Children: A Model with Academic Performance as a Mediator, Anqi Xu, Jiehai Zhang, and Yan Ruth Xia
2006
“You can’t hustle all your life”: An exploratory investigation of the exit process among street-level prostituted women, Rochelle L. Dalla
Individual and Familial Stressors Among Rural Nebraskan, Bilingual, Paraprofessional Educators, Rochelle L. Dalla, William E. Lopez, Vicky O. Jones, and Yan Ruth Xia
“It’s a Balancing Act!”: Exploring School/Work/Family Interface Issues Among Bilingual, Rural Nebraska, Paraprofessional Educators, Rochelle L. Dalla, Pallabi MoulikGupta, Wiliam E. Lopez, and Vicky Jones
Montessori education and its scientific basis, Carolyn P. Edwards
Children's Social Behaviors and Peer Interactions in Diverse Cultures, Carolyn P. Edwards, Maria Rosario de Guzman, Jill Brown, and Asiye Kumru
Child care for children with and without disabilities: The provider, observer, and parent perspectives, Lisa Knoche, Carla A. Peterson, Carolyn P. Edwards, and Hyun-Joo Jeon
Involvement in Early Head Start home visiting services: Demographic predictors and relations to child and parent outcomes, Helen Raikes, Beth L. Green, Jane Atwater, Ellen Kisker, Jill Constantine, and Rachel Chazan-Cohen
Mother–Child Bookreading in Low-Income Families: Correlates and Outcomes During the First Three Years of Life, Helen Raikes, Barbara Alexander Pan, Gayle Luze, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Jill Constantine, Louisa Banks Tarullo, H. Abigail Raikes, and Eileen T. Rodriguez
2005
The interplay of traits and motives on volunteering: agreeableness, extraversion and prosocial value motivation, Gustavo Carlo, Morris A. Okun, George Knight, and Maria Rosario T. de Guzman
Prosocial behaviors in context: A study of the Gikuyu children of Ngecha, Kenya, Maria Rosario de Guzman, Carolyn P. Edwards, and Gustavo Carlo
Children’s Play in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A New Look at the Six Cultures Study , Carolyn P. Edwards
Ensinando as crianças através de centenas de linguagens [Teaching children through “hundreds of languages.”], Carolyn P. Edwards
Showing that Early Childhood Education Works: Lessons from Italy, China, and the USA, Carolyn P. Edwards
Moral Development Study in the 21st Century: Introduction to Moral Motivation through the Life Span: Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, volume 51, Carolyn P. Edwards and Gustavo Carlo
Parental Ethnotheories of Child Development: Looking Beyond Independence and Individualism in American Belief Systems, Carolyn P. Edwards, Lisa Knoche, Vibeke Aukrust, Asiye Kumru, and Misuk Kim
Child Care for Working Poor Families: Child Development and Parent Employment Outcomes: Community Child Care Research Project, Final Report, James Elicker, Carolyn Clawson, Soo-Young Hong, Tae-Eun Kim, Demetra Evangelou, and Susan J. Kontos
FACS 170 Introduction to Early Care and Education: A Three Year Analysis and Peer Review of College Teaching/Learning, Toni Hill-Menson and Carolyn P. Edwards
Perceptions of Attachment Style and Marital Quality in Midlife Marriage, Cody S. Hollist and Richard B. Miller
Conceptions of Relationships , Katie Taylor and Carolyn P. Edwards
Strengths and Resilience in Chinese Immigrant Families: An Initial Effort of Inquiry, Yan Ruth Xia, Zhi George Zhou, and Xiaolin Xie
Collaboration as a Foundation for the Project Approach in Family Child Care, Joan Youngquist, Carolyn P. Edwards, and Ruth Heaton
2004
Addressing the mental health needs of the rural underserved: Findings from a multiple case study of a behavioral telehealth project, Richard Bischoff, Cody S. Hollist, Craig W. Smith, and Paul Flack
“I fell off [the mothering] track”: Barriers to ‘effective mothering’ among street-level prostituted women, Rochelle L. Dalla Dr.
Gender and Age Differences in Brazilian Children’s Friendship Nominations and Peer Sociometric Ratings, Maria Rosario de Guzman, Gustavo Carlo, Lenna Ontai, Silvia Koller, and George P. Knight
Gender and Age Differences in Brazilian Children’s Friendship Nominations and Peer Sociometric Ratings, Maria Rosario de Guzman, Gustavo Carlo, Lenna L. Ontai, Silvia H. Koller, and George P. Knight
Ngecha: A Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change, Carolyn P. Edwards
The Contribution of Social Partnership and Activity Settings to the Emergence of Sex Differences, Carolyn P. Edwards
Development of auditory event-related potentials in young children and relations to word-level reading abilities at age 8 years, Kimberly Espy, Dennis L. Molfese, Victoria J. Molfese, and Arlene Modglin
Causal relationships of adolescent aggression: Empathy, prosocial behavior, self esteem, and social support [in Korean], Young Hi Ha and Carolyn P. Edwards
Olumlu Sosyal Davranışların İlişkisel, Kültürel, Bilişsel ve Duyuşsal Bazı Değişkenlerle İlişkisi [Relational, cultural, cognitive, and affective predictors of prosocial behaviors ], Asiye Kumru, Gustavo Carlo, and Carolyn P. Edwards
Relational, Cultural, Cognitive, and Affective Predictors of Prosocial Behaviors [Olumlu Sosyal Davranışların İlişkisel, Kültürel, Bilişsel ve Duyuşsal Bazı Değişkenlerle İlişkisi], Asiye Kumru, Carolyn P. Edwards, and Gustavo Carlo
Early Head Start: Identifying and Serving Children with Disabilities, Carla Peterson, Shavaun Wall, Helen Raikes, Ellen E. Kisker, Mark E. Swanson, Judith Jerald, Jane B. Atwater, and Wei Qiao
Long Term Effects of Lincoln’s Head Start Programs, Katie Taylor, Kendra Woodburn, Carolyn P. Edwards, and Deila Steiner
Chinese Adolescents’ Decision-Making, Parent-Adolescent Communication and Relationships, Yan Ruth Xia, Xiaolin Xie, Zhi Zhou, John Defrain, William H. Meredith, and Raedene Combs
Strengths and Challenges in Chinese Immigrant Families, Xiaolin Xie, Yan Xia, and Zhi Zhou
2003
Young children’s close relationships outside the family: Parental ethnotheories in four communities in Norway, United States, Turkey, and Korea, Vibeke G. Aukrust, Carolyn Pope Edwards, Asiye Kumru, Lisa Knoche, and Misuk Kim
"You just give them what they want and pray they don’t kill you”: Street-level sex workers’ reports of victimization, personal resources and coping strategies, Rochelle L. Dalla Dr., Yan Xia, and Heather Kennedy
A Culture of Relationships: Early Care for Italian and American Children, Carolyn P. Edwards
"Fine Designs" from Italy: Montessori Education and the Reggio Approach, Carolyn P. Edwards
Effects of environmental measures on intelligence in young children: Growth curve modeling of longitudinal data, K. A. Espy, Victoria J. Molfese, and L. DiLalla
Chinese Parents’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices about Sexuality Education for Adolescents in the Family, Wenli Liu and Carolyn P. Edwards
Child Care Quality Matters: How Conclusions May Vary With Context, John M. Love, Linda Harrison, Abraham Sagi-Schwartz, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Christine Ross, Judy A. Ungerer, Helen Raikes, Christy Brady-Smith, Kimberly Boller, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Jill Constantine, Ellen Eliason Kisker, Diane Paulsell, and Rachel Chazan-Cohen
Lasting Learning Inspired by the Reggio Emilia Philosophy: Professional Development Experience Within the Chinese Context, Wen Zhao, Carolyn P. Edwards, Joan Youngquist, and Wenzuo Xiong
2002
Night Moves: A Qualitative Investigation of Street-Level Sex Work, Rochelle L. Dalla
Three Approaches from Europe: Waldorf, Montessori, and Reggio Emilia, Carolyn P. Edwards
Extending the Dance: Relationship-Based Approaches to Infant/Toddler Care and Education, Carolyn P. Edwards and Helen Raikes
[Beatrice Whiting:] Introduction to Special Issue of Ethos, Thomas S. Weisner and Carolyn P. Edwards
2000
The Role of Research and Scholarship in Enhancing the Quality of Life for Latinos on the Great Plains, Miguel A. Carranza, Gustavo Carlo, and Maria Rosario de Guzman
Exposing the "Pretty Woman" Myth: A Qualitative Examination of the Lives of Female Streetwalking Prostitutes, Rochelle L. Dalla
Exposing the ‘pretty woman’ myth: A qualitative investigation of the lives of female streetwalkers, Rochelle L. Dalla Dr.
Integrating Visual and Verbal Literacies in the Early Childhood Classroom , Carolyn P. Edwards and Linda Mayo Willis
1999
The predictive use of event-related potentials in language development and the treatment of language disorders, Dennis L. Molfese, Victoria J. Molfese, and K. A. Espy
LOW-INCOME FATHERS’ AND MOTHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE FATHER ROLE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY IN FOUR EARLY HEAD START COMMUNITIES, Jean Ann Summers, Helen Raikes, James Butler, Paul Spicer, Barbara Pan, Sarah Shaw, Mark Langager, Carol McAllister, and Monique K. Johnson
The Blood Runs Through Every One of Us and We Are Stronger for It: The Role of Head Start in Promoting Cultural Continuity in Tribal Communities , Linda Mayo Willis and Carolyn P. Edwards
BOOK REVIEW: Towards a Chinese Conception of Social Support: A Study on the Social Support Networks of Chinese Working Mothers in Beijing by Angelina W. K. Yuen-Tsang, Yan Ruth Xia and Zhi Zhou
1998
Generations of Families: A Teaching Project and Photograph Exhibition, Carolyn P. Edwards and Kay Springate
1995
Democratic Participation in a Community of Learners: Loris Malaguzzi's Philosophy of Education as Relationship , Carolyn P. Edwards
Review of Child Care in Russia: In Transition by Jean Ispa, Carolyn P. Edwards
Review of Vivian Gussin Paley, You Can't Say You Can't Play , Carolyn P. Edwards
1992
Using the Project Approach with Toddlers, Debbie LeeKeenan and Carolyn P. Edwards
1991
Enhancing Creativity in a Graduate Course on Creativity: Entering the Time and Space of the Young Child, Carolyn P. Edwards, Doris J. Shallcross, and Julie Maloney
Moral versus Social-Conventional Reasoning: A Narrative and Cultural Critique, Carol S. Witherell and Carolyn P. Edwards