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Overview

C. Emily Durbin is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans psychology and social sciences, with a focus on clinical psychology, education, experimental and cognitive psychology, genetics, and social psychology.

The main topics of their research include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, genetic associations and epidemiology, early childhood education and development, mental health research topics, child development and digital technology, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and alcohol consumption and health effects.

Durbin has published frequently in a variety of academic venues. These include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Psychological Assessment
  • Journal of Personality
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Addiction

Among their recent papers are:

  • Sex, drugs, and early emerging risk: Examining the association between sexual debut and substance use across adolescence, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Alcohol and nicotine polygenic scores are associated with the development of alcohol and nicotine use problems from adolescence to young adulthood, 2021, Addiction
  • A variance decomposition of the Continuous Assessment of Interpersonal Dynamics, 2021, Psychological Assessment
  • Using item response theory to evaluate the Children's Behavior Questionnaire: Considerations of general functioning and assessment length, 2020, Psychological Assessment
  • Adolescent Sexual Development and Peer Groups: Reciprocal Associations and Shared Genetic and Environmental Influences, 2020, Archives of Sexual Behavior

Durbin has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, most notably:

  • David A. Clark
  • Brian M. Hicks
  • William G. Iacono
  • Matt McGue
  • Joseph D. Deak

Their work explores intersections of psychological development with genetics and environmental factors, emphasizing adolescence and early adulthood. This multidisciplinary approach reflects the range of topics and subfields in their research portfolio.

Best Publications

  • Effects of paternal depression on fathers' parenting behaviors: a meta-analytic review.

    Sylia Wilson;C. Emily Durbin

  • Temperamental emotionality in preschoolers and parental mood disorders.

    C. Emily Durbin;Daniel N. Klein;Elizabeth P. Hayden;Maureen E. Buckley

  • Stability of laboratory-assessed temperamental emotionality traits from ages 3 to 7.

    C. Emily Durbin;Elizabeth P. Hayden;Daniel N. Klein;Thomas M. Olino

  • Spillover to Triadic and Dyadic Systems in Families With Young Children

    Catherine B. Stroud;C. Emily Durbin;Sylia Wilson;Kathryn A. Mendelsohn

  • Temperamental Positive and Negative Emotionality and Children's Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal Prospective Study from Age Three to Age Ten

    Lea R. Dougherty;Daniel N. Klein;C. Emily Durbin;Elizabeth P. Hayden

  • Personality and Psychopathology: A Stagnant Field in Need of Development.

    C. Emily Durbin;Brian M. Hicks

  • Interpersonal dysfunction in personality disorders: A meta-analytic review.

    Sylia Wilson;Catherine B. Stroud;C. Emily Durbin

  • Temperamental emotionality in preschool-aged children and depressive disorders in parents: associations in a large community sample.

    Thomas M. Olino;Daniel N. Klein;Margaret W. Dyson;Suzanne A. Rose

  • Positive emotionality at age 3 predicts cognitive styles in 7-year-old children.

    Elizabeth P. Hayden;Daniel N. Klein;C. Emily Durbin;Thomas M. Olino

  • Normal and abnormal personality traits are associated with marital satisfaction for both men and women: An Actor–Partner Interdependence Model analysis

    Catherine B. Stroud;C. Emily Durbin;Seema D. Saigal;Lynne M. Knobloch-Fedders

  • Reconceptualizing antisocial deviance in neurobehavioral terms.

    Christopher J. Patrick;C. Emily Durbin;Jason S. Moser

  • Laying the foundation for progress research in family, couple, and individual therapy: the development and psychometric features of the initial systemic therapy inventory of change.

    William M. Pinsof;Richard E. Zinbarg;Jay L. Lebow;Lynne M. Knobloch-Fedders

  • Gender differences in young children's temperament traits: comparisons across observational and parent-report methods.

    Thomas M. Olino;C. Emily Durbin;Daniel N. Klein;Elizabeth P. Hayden

  • The dopamine D2 receptor gene and depressive and anxious symptoms in childhood: associations and evidence for gene–environment correlation and gene–environment interaction

    Elizabeth P. Hayden;Daniel N. Klein;Lea R. Dougherty;Thomas M. Olino

  • Relationship between Personality Change and the Onset and Course of Alcohol Dependence in Young Adulthood

    Brian M. Hicks;C. Emily Durbin;Daniel M. Blonigen;William G. Iacono

  • Preschoolers' Observed Temperament and Psychiatric Disorders Assessed with a Parent Diagnostic Interview

    Lea R. Dougherty;Sara J. Bufferd;Gabrielle A. Carlson;Margaret Dyson

  • Depression and personality.

    Daniel N. Klein;C. Emily Durbin;Stewart A. Shankman;Neil J. Santiago

  • Convergent validity of and bias in maternal reports of child emotion.

    C. Emily Durbin;Sylia Wilson

  • Marital Quality Spillover and Young Children's Adjustment: Evidence for Dyadic and Triadic Parenting as Mechanisms

    Catherine B. Stroud;Kathryn M. Meyers;Sylia Wilson;C. Emily Durbin

  • Social and non-social behavioral inhibition in preschool-age children: differential associations with parent-reports of temperament and anxiety.

    Margaret W. Dyson;Daniel N. Klein;Thomas M. Olino;Lea R. Dougherty

  • Development and Psychopathology

    Elizabeth P. Hayden;C. Emily Durbin

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel N. Klein
Daniel N. Klein Stony Brook University
Thomas M. Olino
Thomas M. Olino Temple University
Brian M. Hicks
Brian M. Hicks University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lea R. Dougherty
Lea R. Dougherty University of Maryland, College Park
Matt McGue
Matt McGue University of Minnesota
William G. Iacono
William G. Iacono University of Minnesota
Jason S. Moser
Jason S. Moser Michigan State University
Stewart A. Shankman
Stewart A. Shankman Northwestern University
Daniel M. Blonigen
Daniel M. Blonigen VA Palo Alto Health Care System
M. Brent Donnellan
M. Brent Donnellan Michigan State University

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