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Overview

Brian E. Vaughn is affiliated with Auburn University in the United States. The primary areas of research focus on psychology and social sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as clinical psychology, education, social psychology, demography, and pharmacy.

Their research predominantly addresses topics related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, attachment and relationship dynamics, early childhood education and development, and the intersection of child development with digital technology. Other themes include family dynamics and relationships, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and infant health and development.

Recent papers authored by or associated with Vaughn include:

  • Does secure base script knowledge mediate associations between observed parental caregiving during childhood and adult romantic relationship quality and health? (2020, Attachment & Human Development)
  • Early Attachment to Mothers and Fathers: Contributions to Preschoolers' Emotional Regulation (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • Early child care experiences and attachment representations at age 18 years: Evidence from the NICHD study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. (2021, Developmental Psychology)
  • The significance of early temperamental reactivity for children's social competence with peers: A meta-analytic review and comparison with the role of early attachment. (2021, Psychological Bulletin)
  • Measurement invariance across mother/child and father/child attachment relationships (2020, Attachment & Human Development)

Frequent co-authors contributing to Vaughn's body of work include:

  • António J. Santos
  • Manuela Veríssimo
  • Lígia Monteiro
  • Marídia Fernandes
  • Carla Fernandes

The main publication venues where Vaughn's research appears include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Attachment & Human Development
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Psychological Bulletin

These contributions through research articles and collaboration establish a profile centered on understanding early emotional and social development, the role of attachment relationships in psychological outcomes, and the broader social and clinical psychological context affecting children and families.

Best Publications

  • Individual differences in infant-mother attachment at twelve and eighteen months: stability and change in families under stress.

    Brian E. Vaughn;Byron R. Egeland;L. Alan Sroufe;Everett Waters

  • Paternal Identity, Maternal Gatekeeping, and Father Involvement.

    Brent A. McBride;Geoffrey L. Brown;Kelly K. Bost;Nana Shin

  • The early development of inferences about the visual percepts of others.

    Zenaida S. Masangkay;Kathleen A. McCluskey;Curtis W. McIntyre;Judith Sims-Knight

  • Attachment behavior at home and in the laboratory: Q-sort observations and strange situation classifications of one-year-olds.

    Brian E. Vaughn;Everett Waters

  • Attention structure, sociometric status, and dominance: Interrelations, behavioral correlates, and relationships to social competence.

    Brian E. Vaughn;Everett Waters

  • The emergence and consolidation of self-control from eighteen to thirty months of age: normative trends and individual differences.

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  • The relationship between out-of-home care and the quality of infant-mother attachment in an economically disadvantaged population.

    Brian E. Vaughn;Frederick L. Gove;Byron Egeland

  • Social Competence, Social Support, and Attachment: Demarcation of Construct Domains, Measurement, and Paths of Influence for Preschool Children Attending Head Start

    Kelly K. Bost;Brian E. Vaughn;Wanda Newell Washington;Kerry L. Cielinski

  • Individual differences in infant-mother attachment relationships at age one: antecedents in neonatal behavior in an urban, economically disadvantaged sample.

    Everett Waters;Brian E. Vaughn;Byron R. Egeland

  • Maternal Characteristics Measured Prenatally Are Predictive of Ratings of Temperamental "Difficulty" on the Carey Infant Temperament Questionnaire.

    Brian E. Vaughn;Christine F. Bradley;Lyle S. Joffe;Ronald Seifer

  • The assessment of infant temperament: A critique of the carey infant temperament questionnaire

    Brian E Vaughn;Bonnie J Taraldson;Leslie Cuchton;Byron Egeland

  • Attachment security and temperament in infancy and early childhood: Some conceptual clarifications.

    Brian E. Vaughn;Joan Stevenson-Hinde;Everett Waters;Antonis Kotsaftis

  • Chapter III. Maternal Sensitivity, Child Functional Level, and Attachment in Down Syndrome

    Leslie Atkinson;Vivienne C. Chisholm;Brian Scott;Susan Goldberg

  • Maternal secure base scripts, children's attachment security, and mother - Child narrative styles

    Kelly K. Bost;Nana Shin;Brent A. Mcbride;Geoffrey L. Brown

  • Physical attractiveness as a correlate of peer status and social competence in preschool children

    Brian E. Vaughn;Judith H. Langlois

  • Attachment, Identity, and Intimacy: Parallels Between Bowlby's and Erikson's Paradigms

    Joe F. Pittman;Margaret K. Keiley;Jennifer L. Kerpelman;Brian E. Vaughn

  • Effects of maternal absence due to employment on the quality of infant-mother attachment in a low-risk sample.

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  • Attachment behavior, attachment security, and temperament during infancy.

    Brian E. Vaughn;Gretchen B. Lefever;Ronald Seifer;Peter Barglow

  • Negative interactions and social competence for preschool children in two samples: Reconsidering the interpretation of aggressive behavior for young children.

    Brian E. Vaughn;Margaret Vollenweider;Kelly K. Bost;Muriel R. Azria-Evans

  • Caregiving antecedents of secure base script knowledge: a comparative analysis of young adult attachment representations.

    Ryan D. Steele;Theodore E. A. Waters;Kelly K. Bost;Brian E. Vaughn

  • The quality of maternal secure-base scripts predicts children's secure-base behavior at home in three sociocultural groups

    Brian E. Vaughn;Gabrielle Coppola;Manuela Veríssimo;Lígia Maria Santos Monteiro

  • Sleep as a support for social competence, peer relations, and cognitive functioning in preschool children.

    Brian E. Vaughn;Lori Elmore-Staton;Nana Shin;Mona El-Sheikh

  • Empirical classification of infant-mother relationships from interactive behavior and crying during reunion.

    John E. Richters;Everett Waters;Brian E. Vaughn

Frequent Co-Authors

Kelly K. Bost
Kelly K. Bost University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mona El-Sheikh
Mona El-Sheikh Auburn University
Everett Waters
Everett Waters Stony Brook University
Brent A. McBride
Brent A. McBride University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Glenn I. Roisman
Glenn I. Roisman University of Minnesota
Cathryn Booth-LaForce
Cathryn Booth-LaForce University of Washington
Ronald Seifer
Ronald Seifer Brown University
Susan Goldberg
Susan Goldberg University of Toronto
John E. Richters
John E. Richters National Institutes of Health
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences

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