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Overview

Chrystyna D. Kouros is affiliated with Southern Methodist University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a total of 52 publications in this field. Within psychology, Kouros's work spans several subfields including clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and applied psychology.

The scientist's contributions cover numerous topics, prominently featuring mental health research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, family and disability support research, COVID-19 and mental health, digital mental health interventions, resilience and mental health, and attachment and relationship dynamics.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Kouros include:

  • "Promoting Open Science: A Holistic Approach to Changing Behaviour" (2021) published in Collabra Psychology
  • "Effect of COVID-19 disruptions on young adults' affect and substance use in daily life." (2021) published in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
  • "Development and Acceptability of a Method to Investigate Prescription Drug Misuse in Daily Life: Ecological Momentary Assessment Study" (2020) published in JMIR mhealth and uhealth
  • "Association between Mother-Adolescent Relationship Quality and Subjective well-being: Resilience Resources as a Mediating factor among Hong Kong Chinese Adolescents" (2021) published in Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • "Bidirectional associations between nightly sleep and daily happiness and negative mood in adolescents" (2022) published in Child Development

Kouros frequently publishes in venues such as the Journal of Child and Family Studies, Journal of Family Psychology, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University, and Collabra Psychology.

The scientist collaborates with several recurrent coauthors, including Lauren M. Papp, Naomi V. Ekas, Nancy Xiaonan Yu, Diyang Qu, and Sarah J. Madison, indicating an active engagement in collaborative research efforts spanning multiple related areas within psychology and mental health studies.

Best Publications

  • Spillover between marital quality and parent–child relationship quality: Parental depressive symptoms as moderators.

    Chrystyna D. Kouros;Lauren M. Papp;Marcie C. Goeke-Morey;E. Mark Cummings

  • Helicopter Parenting, Autonomy Support, and College Students' Mental Health and Well-being: The Moderating Role of Sex and Ethnicity

    Chrystyna D. Kouros;Megan M. Pruitt;Naomi V. Ekas;Romilyn Kiriaki

  • Marital psychological and physical aggression and children's mental and physical health: direct, mediated, and moderated effects

    Mona El-Sheikh;E. Mark Cummings;Chrystyna D. Kouros;Lori Elmore-Staton

  • Marital Conflict and Children's Externalizing Behavior: Interactions Between Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Nervous System Activity

    Mona El-Sheikh;Chrystyna D Kouros;Stephen Erath;E Mark Cummings

  • Interrelations and moderators of longitudinal links between marital satisfaction and depressive symptoms among couples in established relationships.

    Chrystyna D. Kouros;Lauren M. Papp;E. Mark Cummings

  • Demand-Withdraw Patterns in Marital Conflict in the Home.

    Lauren M. Papp;Chrystyna D. Kouros;E. Mark Cummings

  • Early trajectories of interparental conflict and externalizing problems as predictors of social competence in preadolescence.

    Chrystyna D. Kouros;E. Mark Cummings;Patrick T. Davies

  • The Role of Trauma Symptoms in Nonsuicidal Self-Injury

    Noelle B. Smith;Chrystyna D. Kouros;Alicia E. Meuret

  • Longitudinal Relations between Stress and Depressive Symptoms in Youth: Coping as a Mediator

    Lindsay D. Evans;Chrystyna Kouros;Sarah A. Frankel;Elizabeth McCauley;Elizabeth McCauley

  • Children's skin conductance reactivity as a mechanism of risk in the context of parental depressive symptoms.

    E. Mark Cummings;Mona El-Sheikh;Chrystyna D. Kouros;Peggy S. Keller

  • Emotions in marital conflict interactions: Empathic accuracy, assumed similarity, and the moderating context of depressive symptoms

    Lauren M. Papp;Chrystyna D. Kouros;E. Mark Cummings

  • Children and violence: the role of children's regulation in the marital aggression-child adjustment link.

    E. Mark Cummings;Mona El-Sheikh;Chrystyna D. Kouros;Joseph A. Buckhalt

  • Marital Conflict and Children’s Emotional Security in the Context of Parental Depression

    Chrystyna D. Kouros;Christine E. Merrilees;E. Mark Cummings

  • Transactional Relations Between Marital Functioning and Depressive Symptoms

    Chrystyna D. Kouros;E. Mark Cummings

  • Marital Aggression and Children's Responses to Everyday Interparental Conflict

    E. Mark Cummings;Chrystyna D. Kouros;Lauren M. Papp

  • Daily mood and sleep: reciprocal relations and links with adjustment problems.

    Chrystyna D. Kouros;Mona El-Sheikh

  • Longitudinal Associations Between Husbands' and Wives' Depressive Symptoms.

    Chrystyna D. Kouros;E. Mark Cummings

  • Dynamic Associations between Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Adolescents’ Depressive and Externalizing Symptoms

    Chrystyna D. Kouros;Judy Garber

  • Trajectories of individual depressive symptoms in adolescents: gender and family relationships as predictors.

    Chrystyna D. Kouros;Judy Garber

  • Concurrent and Short-Term Prospective Relations among Neurocognitive Functioning, Coping, and Depressive Symptoms in Youth.

    Lindsay D. Evans;Chrystyna D. Kouros;Silvia Samanez-Larkin;Judy Garber

Frequent Co-Authors

E. Mark Cummings
E. Mark Cummings University of Notre Dame
Judy Garber
Judy Garber Harvard University
Mona El-Sheikh
Mona El-Sheikh Auburn University
Stephen A. Erath
Stephen A. Erath Auburn University
Elizabeth McCauley
Elizabeth McCauley University of Washington
John J. Curtin
John J. Curtin University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kathryn Maguire-Jack
Kathryn Maguire-Jack University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Joseph A. Buckhalt
Joseph A. Buckhalt Auburn University
Renee McDonald
Renee McDonald Southern Methodist University
Ronald E. Dahl
Ronald E. Dahl University of California, Berkeley

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