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Overview

David J. Bridgett is affiliated with Northern Illinois University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and medicine, focusing primarily on child development, maternal mental health, and neuroendocrine regulation of behavior.

The main fields of study in Bridgett's work include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Their research further specializes in several subfields, namely:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Genetics
  • Education

Key topics covered throughout Bridgett's publications include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments

Bridgett's recent published papers illustrate the breadth of these topics. Highlights include:

  • "Associations between local COVID-19 case rates, pandemic-related financial stress and parent and child functioning" (2022), Journal of Family Psychology
  • "Maternal working memory, emotion regulation, and responsivity to infant distress" (2020), Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
  • "Long-Term Neurocognitive Outcomes in Sagittal Synostosis: The Impact of Reoperation" (2020), Journal of Craniofacial Surgery
  • "Neonatal amygdala volumes and the development of self-regulation from early infancy to toddlerhood" (2021), Neuropsychology
  • "Associations between observed and reported infant negative affectivity, fear and self-regulation, and early communicative development-Evidence from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study" (2022), Infancy

The frequent venues for Bridgett's publications include:

  • Infancy
  • PLoS ONE
  • Psychological Assessment
  • Journal of Family Psychology
  • Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

Collaboration is a significant component of Bridgett's research output, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Saara Nolvi
  • Linnéa Karlsson
  • Hasse Karlsson
  • Riikka Korja
  • Eeva-Leena Kataja

Best Publications

  • Intergenerational transmission of self-regulation: A multidisciplinary review and integrative conceptual framework.

    David J. Bridgett;Nicole M. Burt;Erin S. Edwards;Kirby Deater-Deckard

  • Heart rate variability indices as bio-markers of top-down self-regulatory mechanisms: A meta-analytic review.

    Jacob B. Holzman;David J. Bridgett

  • Integrating and differentiating aspects of self-regulation: effortful control, executive functioning, and links to negative affectivity.

    David J. Bridgett;Kate B. Oddi;Lauren M. Laake;Kyle W. Murdock

  • Maternal and contextual influences and the effect of temperament development during infancy on parenting in toddlerhood.

    David J. Bridgett;Maria A. Gartstein;Samuel P. Putnam;Talia McKay

  • Depressed mood and maternal report of child behavior problems: Another look at the depression–distortion hypothesis☆

    Maria A. Gartstein;David J. Bridgett;Thomas J. Dishion;Noah K. Kaufman

  • Parental reflective functioning is associated with tolerance of infant distress but not general distress: Evidence for a specific relationship using a simulated baby paradigm

    Helena J.V. Rutherford;Benjamin Goldberg;Patrick Luyten;David J. Bridgett

  • Intellectual functioning in adults with ADHD: a meta-analytic examination of full scale IQ differences between adults with and without ADHD.

    David J. Bridgett;Michael E. Walker

  • The effects of whole-vault cranioplasty versus strip craniectomy on long-term neuropsychological outcomes in sagittal craniosynostosis.

    Peter W. Hashim;Anup Patel;Jenny F. Yang;Roberto Travieso

  • The impact of age at surgery on long-term neuropsychological outcomes in sagittal craniosynostosis.

    Anup Patel;Jenny F. Yang;Peter W. Hashim;Roberto Travieso

  • Investigating the association between parental reflective functioning and distress tolerance in motherhood.

    Helena J.V. Rutherford;Cortney R. Booth;Patrick Luyten;David J. Bridgett

  • A latent growth examination of fear development in infancy: contributions of maternal depression and the risk for toddler anxiety.

    Maria A. Gartstein;David J. Bridgett;Mary K. Rothbart;Christopher Robertson

  • Emerging effortful control in toddlerhood: the role of infant orienting/regulation, maternal effortful control, and maternal time spent in caregiving activities.

    David J. Bridgett;Maria A. Gartstein;Samuel P. Putnam;Kate Oddi Lance

  • Maternal prenatal stress and infant emotional reactivity six months postpartum

    Saara Nolvi;Linnea Karlsson;Linnea Karlsson;David J. Bridgett;Riikka Korja

  • Cognitive Correlates of Personality

    Kyle W. Murdock;Katherine B Oddi;David J. Bridgett

  • Maternal postnatal psychiatric symptoms and infant temperament affect early mother-infant bonding.

    Saara Nolvi;Linnea Karlsson;David J. Bridgett;Marjukka Pajulo

  • Origins of Effortful Control: Infant and Parent Contributions.

    Maria A. Gartstein;David J. Bridgett;Brandi N. Young;Jaak Panksepp

  • Using SEM to examine emotion regulation and revictimization in predicting PTSD symptoms among childhood abuse survivors.

    Michelle M. Lilly;Melissa J. London;David J. Bridgett

  • Maternal self-regulation, relationship adjustment, and home chaos: contributions to infant negative emotionality.

    David J. Bridgett;Nicole M. Burt;Lauren M. Laake;Kate B. Oddi

  • Maternal and Infant Temperament Characteristics as Contributors to Parenting Stress in the First Year Postpartum

    Kate B. Oddi;Kyle W. Murdock;Sarah Vadnais;David J. Bridgett

  • Using an adoption design to separate genetic, prenatal, and temperament influences on toddler executive function.

    Leslie D. Leve;David S. DeGarmo;David J. Bridgett;Jenae M. Neiderhiser

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda C. Mayes
Linda C. Mayes Yale University
Maria A. Gartstein
Maria A. Gartstein Washington State University
Jenae M. Neiderhiser
Jenae M. Neiderhiser Pennsylvania State University
Samuel P. Putnam
Samuel P. Putnam Bowdoin College
Patrick Luyten
Patrick Luyten University College London
David Reiss
David Reiss Yale University
Joel S. Milner
Joel S. Milner Northern Illinois University
Thomas G. Power
Thomas G. Power Washington State University
Leslie D. Leve
Leslie D. Leve University of Oregon

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