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Christopher J. Lonigan

Christopher J. Lonigan

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Psychology

D-Index
81
Citations
32931
World Ranking
1365
National Ranking
816

Overview

Christopher J. Lonigan is affiliated with Florida State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Statistics and Probability.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to Reading and Literacy Development, Early Childhood Education and Development, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, Parental Involvement in Education, and Behavioral and Psychological Studies.

They have published extensively in several academic journals, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Reading Research Quarterly
  • Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

Among the recent papers associated with their work are:

  • Relations between executive functions and academic outcomes in elementary school children: A meta-analysis. (2021) Psychological Bulletin
  • How the Science of Reading Informs 21st-Century Education (2020) Reading Research Quarterly
  • Do Parent and Teacher Ratings of ADHD Reflect the Same Constructs? A Measurement Invariance Analysis (2021) Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
  • Revisiting the definition of dyslexia (2024) Annals of Dyslexia
  • A randomized controlled trial of central executive training (CET) versus inhibitory control training (ICT) for ADHD. (2020) Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

Christopher J. Lonigan collaborates regularly with a number of co-authors, among them:

  • Beth M. Phillips
  • Eric D. Hand
  • Brittany M. Morris
  • Sarah V. Alfonso
  • Christopher DeCamp

Best Publications

  • Child development and emergent literacy

    Graver J. Whitehurst;Christopher J. Lonigan

  • Accelerating Language Development through Picture Book Reading.

    G. J. Whitehurst;F. L. Falco;C. J. Lonigan;J. E. Fischel

  • Development of emergent literacy and early reading skills in preschool children: evidence from a latent-variable longitudinal study.

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Stephen R. Burgess;Jason L. Anthony

  • Relative efficacy of parent and teacher involvement in a shared-reading intervention for preschool children from low-income backgrounds

    Christopher J Lonigan;Grover J Whitehurst

  • Relations of the home literacy environment (HLE) to the development of reading-related abilities: A one-year longitudinal study

    Stephen R. Burgess;Steven A. Hecht;Christopher J. Lonigan

  • Accelerating language development through picture book reading: replication and extension to a videotape training format

    David H. Arnold;Christopher J. Lonigan;Grover J. Whitehurst;Jeffery N. Epstein

  • Development of phonological sensitivity in 2- to 5-year-old children.

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Stephen R. Burgess;Jason L. Anthony;Theodore A. Barker

  • The Nature of Phonological Awareness: Converging Evidence From Four Studies of Preschool and Early Grade School Children.

    Jason L. Anthony;Christopher J. Lonigan

  • Empirically supported psychosocial interventions for children: an overview.

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Jean C. Elbert;Suzanne Bennett Johnson

  • Children exposed to disaster: I. Epidemiology of post-traumatic symptoms and symptom profiles.

    Mitsuko P. Shannon;Christopher J. Lonigan;A.J. Finch;Charlotte M. Taylor

  • Bidirectional relations of phonological sensitivity and prereading abilities: evidence from a preschool sample.

    Stephen R. Burgess;Christopher J. Lonigan

  • Phonological sensitivity: A quasi‐parallel progression of word structure units and cognitive operations

    Jason L. Anthony;Christopher J. Lonigan;Kimberly Driscoll;Beth M. Phillips

  • Children exposed to disaster: II. Risk factors for the development of post-traumatic symptomatology.

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Mitsuko P. Shannon;Charlotte M. Taylor;Aj Finch

  • Home environments and young Latino children's school readiness

    Jo Ann M. Farver;Yiyuan Xu;Stefanie Eppe;Christopher J. Lonigan

  • Early literacy and early numeracy: the value of including early literacy skills in the prediction of numeracy development.

    David J. Purpura;Laura E. Hume;Darcey M. Sims;Christopher J. Lonigan

  • Successful phonological awareness instruction with preschool children: Lessons from the classroom.

    Beth M. Phillips;Jeanine Clancy-Menchetti;Christopher J. Lonigan

  • Temperament, Anxiety, and the Processing of Threat-Relevant Stimuli

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Michael W. Vasey;Beth M. Phillips;Rebecca A. Hazen

  • Relations between inhibitory control and the development of academic skills in preschool and kindergarten: a meta-analysis.

    Nicholas P. Allan;Laura E. Hume;Darcey M. Allan;Amber L. Farrington

  • Relations of positive and negative affectivity to anxiety and depression in children: Evidence from a latent variable longitudinal study.

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Beth M. Phillips;Eric S. Hooe

  • Effects of Two Shared-Reading Interventions on Emergent Literacy Skills of At-Risk Preschoolers:

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Jason L. Anthony;Brenlee G. Bloomfield;Sarah M. Dyer

  • Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel. Executive Summary. A Scientific Synthesis of Early Literacy Development and Implications for Intervention.

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Timothy Shanahan

Frequent Co-Authors

Beth M. Phillips
Beth M. Phillips Florida State University
Jason L. Anthony
Jason L. Anthony University of South Florida
Jo Ann M. Farver
Jo Ann M. Farver University of Southern California
Nicholas P. Allan
Nicholas P. Allan The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
David J. Purpura
David J. Purpura Purdue University West Lafayette
Susan H. Landry
Susan H. Landry The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Nancy Eisenberg
Nancy Eisenberg Arizona State University
Grover J. Whitehurst
Grover J. Whitehurst Stony Brook University
Tracy L. Spinrad
Tracy L. Spinrad Arizona State University
Paul R. Swank
Paul R. Swank The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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