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Elizabeth A. Skowron

Elizabeth A. Skowron

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Psychology

D-Index
34
Citations
6402
World Ranking
10103
National Ranking
5323

Overview

Elizabeth A. Skowron is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States. Their research is situated primarily within the field of Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Applied Psychology, and Education.

Their scholarly work centers on topics related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, attachment and relationship dynamics, child abuse and trauma, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, behavioral health and interventions, as well as early childhood education and development.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Development and Psychopathology, American Journal of Family Therapy, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and Children and Youth Services Review.

Recent key publications by Elizabeth A. Skowron include:

  • Differentiation of Self and Its Relationship with Emotional Self-Regulation and Anxiety in a Spanish Sample, 2020, American Journal of Family Therapy
  • Dyadic synchrony and repair processes are related to preschool children's risk exposure and self-control, 2020, Development and Psychopathology
  • PCIT engagement and persistence among child welfare-involved families: Associations with harsh parenting, physiological reactivity, and social cognitive processes at intake, 2021, Development and Psychopathology
  • Randomized trial of parent-child interaction therapy improves child-welfare parents' behavior, self-regulation, and self-perceptions, 2023, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • Study Protocol: The Coaching Alternative Parenting Strategies (CAPS) Study of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy in Child Welfare Families, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Emma R. Lyons
  • Akhila Nekkanti
  • Carolyn M. Scholtes
  • Beverly W. Funderburk
  • Kleanthis Neophytou

Best Publications

  • The Differentiation of Self Inventory: Development and Initial Validation

    Elizabeth A. Skowron;Myrna L. Friedlander

  • ASSESSING INTERPERSONAL FUSION: RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF A NEW DSI FUSION WITH OTHERS SUBSCALE

    Elizabeth A. Skowron;Thomas A. Schmitt

  • The role of differentiation of self in marital adjustment.

    Elizabeth A. Skowron

  • DIFFERENTIATION OF SELF AND ATTACHMENT IN ADULTHOOD: RELATIONAL CORRELATES OF EFFORTFUL CONTROL

    Elizabeth A. Skowron;Anna K. Dendy

  • Differentiation of Self Mediates College Stress and Adjustment

    Elizabeth A. Skowron;Stephen R. Wester;Razia Azen

  • A Longitudinal Perspective on Differentiation of Self, Interpersonal and Psychological Well-Being in Young Adulthood

    Elizabeth A. Skowron;Krystal L. Stanley;Michael D. Shapiro

  • Deconstructing Differentiation: Self Regulation, Interdependent Relating, and Well-Being in Adulthood

    Elizabeth A. Skowron;Sarah E. Holmes;Ronald M. Sabatelli

  • Differentiation of Self, Personal Adjustment, Problem Solving, and Ethnic Group Belonging Among Persons of Color

    Elizabeth A. Skowron

  • Effectiveness of psychological interventions for child maltreatment: a meta-analysis

    Elizabeth Skowron;Dawn H. S. Reinemann

  • What We Do and Don't Know About the Process of Family Therapy

    Myrna L. Friedlander;Julie Wildman;Laurie Heatherington;Elizabeth A. Skowron

  • Early adversity, RSA, and inhibitory control: Evidence of children's neurobiological sensitivity to social context

    Elizabeth A. Skowron;Elizabeth Cipriano-Essel;Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp;Douglas M. Teti

  • Differentiation, self-other representations, and rupture-repair processes: predicting child maltreatment-risk

    Elizabeth A. Skowron;Jo Ellen M. Kozlowski;Aaron L. Pincus

  • Effect of differentiation of self on adolescent risk behavior: test of the theoretical model.

    Donna G. Knauth;Elizabeth A. Skowron;Melicia Escobar

  • Psychometric evaluation of the Differentiation of Self Inventory for adolescents.

    Donna G. Knauth;Elizabeth A. Skowron

  • Parent Differentiation of Self and Child Competence in Low-Income Urban Families.

    Elizabeth A. Skowron

  • Cardiac Vagal Tone and Quality of Parenting Show Concurrent and Time-Ordered Associations That Diverge in Abusive, Neglectful, and Non-Maltreating Mothers

    Elizabeth A. Skowron;Elizabeth Cipriano-Essel;Lorna Smith Benjamin;Aaron L. Pincus

  • The Role of Differentiation of Self and Dyadic Adjustment in Predicting Codependency

    J. Lampis;S. Cataudella;A. Busonera;Elizabeth A. Skowron

  • Mapping cardiac physiology and parenting processes in maltreating mother–child dyads.

    Elizabeth A. Skowron;Eric Loken;Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp;Elizabeth A. Cipriano-Essel

  • Sustaining engagement: A change event in family therapy.

    Myrna L. Friedlander;Laurie Heatherington;Benjamin Johnson;Elizabeth A. Skowron

  • Differentiation of Self, Mate Selection, and Marital Adjustment: Validity of Postulates of Bowen Theory in a Spanish Sample

    Martiño Rodríguez-González;Elizabeth A. Skowron;Virginia Cagigal de Gregorio;Isabel Muñoz San Roque

  • Differentiation of Self and Child Abuse Potential in Young Adulthood

    Elizabeth A. Skowron;Lisa F. Platt

Frequent Co-Authors

Myrna L. Friedlander
Myrna L. Friedlander University at Albany, State University of New York
Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp
Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp Pennsylvania State University
Helen J. Neville
Helen J. Neville University of Oregon
David S. DeGarmo
David S. DeGarmo University of Oregon
Aaron L. Pincus
Aaron L. Pincus Pennsylvania State University
Douglas M. Teti
Douglas M. Teti Pennsylvania State University
Philip A. Fisher
Philip A. Fisher Stanford University
Robert T. Ammerman
Robert T. Ammerman Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Lorna Smith Benjamin
Lorna Smith Benjamin University of Utah
Elliot T. Berkman
Elliot T. Berkman University of Oregon

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