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Overview

Ellen Moss is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada. Their primary field of study is Psychology, with a focus on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Demography, Safety Research, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research centers on several main topics including:

  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Among Ellen Moss's recent publications are:

  • "Adolescents' Attachment to Parents and Peers: Links to Young Adulthood Friendship Quality" (2021) published in Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • "Examining the role of mother-child interactions and DNA methylation of the oxytocin receptor gene in understanding child controlling attachment behaviors" (2020) published in Attachment & Human Development
  • "Transmission of parental childhood trauma to child behavior problems: Parental Hostile/Helpless state of mind as a moderator" (2021) published in Child Abuse & Neglect
  • "Variation in the mu-opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) moderates the influence of maternal sensitivity on child attachment" (2024) published in Translational Psychiatry
  • "Childhood behavioral inhibition and attachment: Links to generalized anxiety disorder in young adulthood" (2022) published in Frontiers in Psychology

The venues where they frequently publish include:

  • Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • Attachment & Human Development
  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Cortex

Ellen Moss has collaborated multiple times with a group of frequent co-authors, including:

  • Katherine Pascuzzo
  • Magdalena A. Zdebik
  • Raphaële Miljkovitch
  • Aino Sirparanta
  • Vanessa Lecompte

Best Publications

  • Efficacy of a home-visiting intervention aimed at improving maternal sensitivity, child attachment, and behavioral outcomes for maltreated children: A randomized control trial

    Ellen Moss;Karine Dubois-Comtois;Chantal Cyr;George M. Tarabulsy

  • Correlates of Attachment at School Age: Maternal Reported Stress, Mother‐Child Interaction, and Behavior Problems

    Ellen Moss;Denise Rousseau;Sophie Parent;Diane St-Laurent

  • Attachment at school age and academic performance.

    Ellen Moss;Diane St-Laurent

  • Attachment at early school age and developmental risk: examining family contexts and behavior problems of controlling-caregiving, controlling-punitive, and behaviorally disorganized children.

    Ellen Moss;Chantal Cyr;Karine Dubois-Comtois

  • Stability of attachment during the preschool period.

    Ellen Moss;Chantal Cyr;Jean-François Bureau;George M. Tarabulsy

  • Longitudinal association between adolescent attachment, adult romantic attachment, and emotion regulation strategies.

    Katherine Pascuzzo;Chantal Cyr;Ellen Moss

  • Another Look Inside the Gap: Ecological Contributions to the Transmission of Attachment in a Sample of Adolescent Mother-Infant Dyads.

    George M. Tarabulsy;Annie Bernier;Marc A. Provost;Johanne Maranda

  • Attachment and behavior problems in middle childhood as reported by adult and child informants.

    Ellen Moss;Nicole Smolla;Chantal Cyr;Karine Dubois-Comtois

  • Correlates of attachment at age 3: construct validity of the preschool attachment classification system.

    Ellen Moss;Jean-François Bureau;Chantal Cyr;Chantal Mongeau

  • Early maladaptive schemas and child and adult attachment: a 15-year longitudinal study.

    Valérie Simard;Ellen Moss;Katherine Pascuzzo

  • Attachment and teacher-reported behavior problems during the preschool and early school-age period.

    Ellen Moss;Sophie Parent;Catherine Gosselin;Denise Rousseau

  • Behavior Problems in Middle Childhood: The Predictive Role of Maternal Distress, Child Attachment, and Mother-Child Interactions

    Karine Dubois-Comtois;Ellen Moss;Chantal Cyr;Katherine Pascuzzo

  • Emotion regulation strategies as mediators of the association between level of attachment security and PTSD symptoms following trauma in adulthood.

    Maryse Benoit;Donald Bouthillier;Ellen Moss;Cecile Rousseau

  • The maternal adversity, vulnerability and neurodevelopment project: theory and methodology.

    Katherine A O'Donnell;Hélène Gaudreau;Sara Colalillo;Meir Steiner;Meir Steiner

  • Attachment-based intervention for maltreating families.

    George M. Tarabulsy;Katherine Pascuzzo;Ellen Moss;Danielle St-Laurent

  • Attachment and Emotion Regulation Strategies in Predicting Adult Psychopathology

    Katherine Pascuzzo;Ellen Moss;Chantal Cyr

  • The influential child: How children affect their environment and influence their own risk and resilience.

    Maayan Davidov;Ariel Knafo-Noam;Lisa A. Serbin;Ellen Moss

  • Correlates of child-father and child-mother attachment in the preschool years.

    Jean-François Bureau;Jodi Martin;Kim Yurkowski;Sabrina Schmiedel

  • Behavior problems of children in foster care: associations with foster mothers' representations, commitment, and the quality of mother-child interaction

    Karine Dubois-Comtois;Annie Bernier;George M. Tarabulsy;Chantal Cyr

  • Individual differences in infant still-face response at 6 months

    George M Tarabulsy;Marc A Provost;Julie Deslandes;Diane St-Laurent

Frequent Co-Authors

Annie Bernier
Annie Bernier University of Montreal
James L. Kennedy
James L. Kennedy Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Leslie Atkinson
Leslie Atkinson Toronto Metropolitan University
Robert D. Levitan
Robert D. Levitan Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Alison S. Fleming
Alison S. Fleming University of Toronto
Simon Larose
Simon Larose Université Laval
Phyllis Zelkowitz
Phyllis Zelkowitz McGill University
Alain Brunet
Alain Brunet McGill University
Michael S. Kobor
Michael S. Kobor University of British Columbia
Susan Goldberg
Susan Goldberg University of Toronto

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