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Grazyna Kochanska

Grazyna Kochanska

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Psychology

D-Index
78
Citations
29019
World Ranking
1559
National Ranking
930

Overview

Grazyna Kochanska is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology. Their research primarily focuses on child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, with particular attention to attachment and relationship dynamics. The scientist's work also intersects with clinical psychology, social psychology, public health, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's recent publications include studies in diverse areas of developmental psychology and psychopathology. Notable papers are:

  • The significance of early parent-child attachment for emerging regulation: A longitudinal investigation of processes and mechanisms from toddler age to preadolescence, 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • Children's theory of mind as a mechanism linking parents' mind-mindedness in infancy with children's conscience, 2020, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Family sociodemographic resources moderate the path from toddlers' hard-to-manage temperament to parental control to disruptive behavior in middle childhood, 2020, Development and Psychopathology
  • Parents' early representations of their children moderate socialization processes: Evidence from two studies, 2020, Development and Psychopathology
  • Using item response theory to evaluate the Children's Behavior Questionnaire: Considerations of general functioning and assessment length, 2020, Psychological Assessment

The frequent publication venues for this scientist include:

  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Attachment & Human Development
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Collaborations have played a role in their research output, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Danming An
  • Lilly C. Bendel-Stenzel
  • Juyoung Kim
  • Sanghag Kim
  • Kathryn C. Goffin

The scientist's main fields of study encompass psychology, with subfields focusing on clinical psychology, social psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, developmental and educational psychology, and education.

The central themes in their work involve:

  • 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
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development

Best Publications

  • Effortful control in early childhood: continuity and change, antecedents, and implications for social development

    Grazyna Kochanska;Kathleen T. Murray;Elena T. Harlan

  • Inhibitory control in young children and its role in emerging internalization

    Grazyna Kochanska;Kathleen Murray;Tanya Y. Jacques;Amy L. Koenig

  • The development of self-regulation in the first four years of life.

    Grazyna Kochanska;Katherine C. Coy;Kathleen T. Murray

  • Mother‐Child Mutually Positive Affect, the Quality of Child Compliance to Requests and Prohibitions, and Maternal Control as Correlates of Early Internalization

    Grazyna Kochanska;Nazan Aksan

  • Effortful control as a personality characteristic of young children: antecedents, correlates, and consequences

    Grazyna Kochanska;Amy Knaack

  • Inhibitory Control as a Contributor to Conscience in Childhood: From Toddler to Early School Age.

    Grazyna Kochanska;Kathleen Murray;Katherinc C. Coy

  • Multiple pathways to conscience for children with different temperaments: from toddlerhood to age 5.

    Grazyna Kochanska

  • Children's Temperament, Mothers' Discipline, and Security of Attachment: Multiple Pathways to Emerging Internalization

    Grazyna Kochanska

  • A developmental interpretation of Young children's noncompliance

    Leon Kuczynski;Grazyna Kochanska;Marian Radke-Yarrow;Ona Girnius-Brown

  • Development of Children's Noncompliance Strategies from Toddlerhood to Age 5.

    Leon Kuczynski;Grazyna Kochanska

  • Effortful control: factor structure and relation to externalizing and internalizing behaviors.

    Kathleen T. Murray;Grazyna Kochanska

  • Mutually Responsive Orientation between Mothers and Their Young Children: Implications for Early Socialization

    Grazyna Kochanska

  • Guilt in young children: development, determinants, and relations with a broader system of standards.

    Grazyna Kochanska;Jami N. Gross;Mei-Hua Lin;Kate E. Nichols

  • Children's conscience and self-regulation.

    Grazyna Kochanska;Nazan Aksan

  • Maternal reports of conscience development and temperament in young children.

    Grazyna Kochanska;Katherine DeVet;Marguerita Goldman;Kathleen Murray

  • Socialization and Temperament in the Development of Guilt and Conscience

    Grazyna Kochanska

  • Correspondence between Mothers' Self-reported and Observed Child-rearing Practices.

    Grazyna Kochanska;Leon Kuczynski;Marian Radke-Yarrow

  • Mothers' personality and its interaction with child temperament as predictors of parenting behavior

    Lee Anna Clark;Grazyna Kochanska;Rebecca Ready

  • Children's fearfulness as a moderator of parenting in early socialization: Two longitudinal studies.

    Grazyna Kochanska;Nazan Aksan;Mary E. Joy

  • Interplay of Genes and Early Mother-Child Relationship in the Development of Self-Regulation from Toddler to Preschool Age

    Grazyna Kochanska;Robert A. Philibert;Robin A. Barry

Frequent Co-Authors

Leon Kuczynski
Leon Kuczynski University of Guelph
Lee Anna Clark
Lee Anna Clark University of Notre Dame
Carolyn Zahn-Waxler
Carolyn Zahn-Waxler University of Wisconsin–Madison
Samuel P. Putnam
Samuel P. Putnam Bowdoin College
Steven W. Anderson
Steven W. Anderson University of Iowa
Ross A. Thompson
Ross A. Thompson University of California, Davis
Michelle M. Martel
Michelle M. Martel University of Kentucky
Mary K. Rothbart
Mary K. Rothbart University of Oregon
Hanna Damasio
Hanna Damasio University of Southern California
Megan R. Gunnar
Megan R. Gunnar University of Minnesota

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