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Alison Pike is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on psychology, medicine, and social sciences. Within these broader fields, their work delves deeply into clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, education, social psychology, and demography.

The core topics of Alison Pike's research focus on child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development. Other significant areas include maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, attachment and relationship dynamics, family dynamics and relationships, early childhood education and development, child welfare and adoption, as well as child abuse and trauma.

Alison Pike has published in a variety of academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • Psychiatric Quarterly
  • Psychological Studies
  • Adoption & Fostering

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Alison Pike include:

  • "Explaining the influence of non-shared environment (NSE) on symptoms of behaviour problems from preschool to adulthood: mind the missing NSE gap" (2022, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)
  • "A Multilevel Approach to Understanding the Determinants of Maternal Harsh Parenting: the Importance of Maternal Age and Perceived Partner Support" (2021, Journal of Child and Family Studies)
  • "Household Chaos and Child Behavior Problems Predict Maternal Well-being" (2021, Psychiatric Quarterly)
  • "Co-parenting and Marital Satisfaction Predict Maternal Internalizing Problems When Expecting a Second Child" (2021, Psychological Studies)
  • "'Look after me too': A qualitative exploration of the transition into adoptive motherhood" (2021, Adoption & Fostering)

Alison Pike frequently collaborates with several other researchers. Notable frequent coauthors include Kinneret Levavi, Porat Yakov, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Amnon Hadar, and Guy Bar.

Best Publications

  • Household chaos - links with parenting and child behaviour.

    Joanne Coldwell;Alison Pike;Judy Dunn

  • Family Environment and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms and Antisocial Behavior: A Multivariate Genetic Analysis.

    Alison Pike;Shirley McGuire;E. Mavis Hetherington;David Reiss

  • Do risk factors for problem behaviour act in a cumulative manner? An examination of ethnic minority and majority children through an ecological perspective

    Naama Atzaba-Poria;Alison Pike;Kirby Deater-Deckard

  • Sibling relationships in early/middle childhood: links with individual adjustment.

    Alison Pike;Joanne Coldwell;Judith F Dunn

  • Nonshared Environmental Influences on Individual Differences in Early Behavioral Development: A Monozygotic Twin Differences Study.

    Karthryn Asbury;Judith F. Dunn;Alison Pike;Robert Plomin

  • Chaos in the home and socioeconomic status are associated with cognitive development in early childhood: Environmental mediators identified in a genetic design.

    Stephen A. Petrill;Alison Pike;Tom Price;Robert Plomin

  • Environmental risk and young children’s cognitive and behavioral development

    Alison Pike;Alessandra C. Iervolino;Thalia C. Eley;Thomas S. Price

  • Maternal scaffolding behavior: links with parenting style and maternal education.

    Amanda Carr;Alison Pike

  • Nonshared environmental processes in social‐emotional development: an observational study of identical twin differences in the preschool period

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Alison Pike;Stephen A Petrill;Alexandra L Cutting

  • Using MZ Differences in the Search for Nonshared Environmental Effects

    Alison Pike;David Reiss;E. Mavis Hetherington;Robert Plomin

  • The impact of parents' mental health on parent-baby interaction: a prospective study.

    Ylva Parfitt;Alison Pike;Susan Ayers

  • Importance of nonshared environmental factors for childhood and adolescent psychopathology

    Alison Pike;Robert Plomin

  • Genetic and environmental influences in adolescent peer socialization: evidence from two genetically sensitive designs

    Alessandra C. Iervolino;Alison Pike;Beth Manke;David Reiss

  • Mother— and Father—Child Mutuality in Anglo and Indian British Families: A Link with Lower Externalizing Problems

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Naama Atzaba-Poria;Alison Pike

  • Correlates of Parental Differential Treatment: Parental and Contextual Factors during Middle Childhood.

    Naama Atzaba-Poria;Alison Pike

  • The Validity of a Parent-based Assessment of Cognitive Abilities in Three-year Olds

    Bonamy Oliver;Philip S. Dale;Kimberly J. Saudino;Stephen A. Petrill

  • The role of adult attachment style, birth intervention and support in posttraumatic stress after childbirth: a prospective study

    Susan Ayers;Donna Jessop;Alison Pike;Ylva Parfitt

  • Infant developmental outcomes: a family systems perspective

    Ylva Parfitt;Alison Pike;Susan Ayers

  • Adolescent perceptions as mediators of parenting: genetic and environmental contributions.

    J M Neiderhiser;A Pike;E M Hetherington;D Reiss

  • Do sibling and friend relationships share the same temperamental origins? A twin study.

    Alison Pike;Naama Atzaba-Poria

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin King's College London
David Reiss
David Reiss Yale University
Kirby Deater-Deckard
Kirby Deater-Deckard University of Massachusetts Amherst
Susan Ayers
Susan Ayers City, University of London
Jenae M. Neiderhiser
Jenae M. Neiderhiser Pennsylvania State University
E. Mavis Hetherington
E. Mavis Hetherington University of Virginia
Stephen A. Petrill
Stephen A. Petrill The Ohio State University
Judy Dunn
Judy Dunn King's College London
Thalia C. Eley
Thalia C. Eley King's College London
Claire Hughes
Claire Hughes University of Cambridge

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