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Overview

Jelena Obradović is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has contributed to research primarily within the social sciences and psychology fields, focusing particularly on education and developmental psychology. Their research publications address topics related to early childhood education, psychosocial and emotional development in children and adolescents, parental involvement, and physiological measures linked to child development.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues

Obradović's body of work spans a variety of publication venues. The most frequent venues for their publications are:

  • Developmental Psychobiology
  • Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • Early Education and Development
  • Journal of Family Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology

Collaborative efforts are marked by repeated co-authorship with several researchers, including:

  • Michael J. Sulik
  • Emma Armstrong-Carter
  • Aisha K. Yousafzai
  • Lily Steyer
  • Saima Siyal

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Obradović include:

  • "Learning to let go: Parental over-engagement predicts poorer self-regulation in kindergartners." (2021, Journal of Family Psychology)
  • "Addressing educational inequalities and promoting learning through studies of stress physiology in elementary school students" (2020, Development and Psychopathology)

Other notable papers related to the broader collaborative research network where Obradović contributed include:

  • "Publishing child development research from around the world: An unfair playing field resulting in most of the world's child population under-represented in research" (2022, Infant and Child Development)
  • "The next 1000 days: building on early investments for the health and development of young children" (2024, The Lancet)
  • "Widely used measures of classroom quality are largely unrelated to preschool skill development" (2022, Early Childhood Research Quarterly)

Best Publications

  • Competence and Resilience in Development

    Ann S. Masten;Jelena Obradović

  • Developmental cascades: linking academic achievement and externalizing and internalizing symptoms over 20 years.

    Ann S. Masten;Glenn I. Roisman;Jeffrey D. Long;Keith B. Burt

  • Disaster Preparation and Recovery: Lessons from Research on Resilience in Human Development

    Ann S. Masten;Jelena Obradović

  • Resources and resilience in the transition to adulthood: continuity and change.

    Ann S. Masten;Keith B. Burt;Glenn I. Roisman;Jelena Obradovic

  • Biological sensitivity to context: the interactive effects of stress reactivity and family adversity on socioemotional behavior and school readiness.

    Jelena Obradović;Nicole R. Bush;Juliet Stamperdahl;Nancy E. Adler

  • The interplay of social competence and psychopathology over 20 years: testing transactional and cascade models.

    Keith B. Burt;Jelena Obradović;Jeffrey D. Long;Ann S. Masten

  • Academic achievement of homeless and highly mobile children in an urban school district: longitudinal evidence on risk, growth, and resilience.

    Jelena Obradović;Jeffrey D. Long;J. J. Cutuli;Chi Keung Chan

  • Resilience in Emerging Adulthood: Developmental Perspectives on Continuity and Transformation.

    Ann S. Masten;Jelena Obradović;Keith B. Burt

  • Effortful control and adaptive functioning of homeless children: Variable-focused and person-focused analyses

    Jelena Obradović

  • Measuring interpersonal callousness in boys from childhood to adolescence: an examination of longitudinal invariance and temporal stability.

    Jelena Obradović;Dustin A. Pardini;Jeffrey D. Long;Rolf Loeber

  • The interactive effect of marital conflict and stress reactivity on externalizing and internalizing symptoms: The role of laboratory stressors

    Jelena Obradović;Nicole R. Bush;W. Thomas Boyce

  • An Integrative View of School Functioning: Transactions between Self-Regulation, School Engagement, and Teacher-Child Relationship Quality.

    Ximena A. Portilla;Parissa J. Ballard;Parissa J. Ballard;Nancy E. Adler;W. Thomas Boyce

  • Testing a dual cascade model linking competence and symptoms over 20 years from childhood to adulthood.

    Jelena Obradović;Keith B. Burt;Ann S. Masten

  • Effects of responsive stimulation and nutrition interventions on children's development and growth at age 4 years in a disadvantaged population in Pakistan: a longitudinal follow-up of a cluster-randomised factorial effectiveness trial

    Aisha K Yousafzai;Jelena Obradović;Muneera A Rasheed;Arjumand Rizvi

  • Interpersonal callousness, hyperactivity/impulsivity, inattention, and conduct problems as precursors to delinquency persistence in boys: a comparison of three grade-based cohorts.

    Dustin Pardini;Jelena Obradović;Rolf Loeber

  • The construct of psychophysiological reactivity: Statistical and psychometric issues

    Keith B. Burt;Jelena Obradović

  • Developmental Antecedents of Young Adult Civic Engagement

    Jelena Obradović;Ann S. Masten

  • How can the study of physiological reactivity contribute to our understanding of adversity and resilience processes in development

    Jelena Obradović

  • Individual differences in behavioral, physiological, and genetic sensitivities to contexts: implications for development and adaptation.

    Jelena Obradović;W Thomas Boyce

  • Intergenerational continuity in parenting quality: the mediating role of social competence.

    Anne Shaffer;Keith B Burt;Jelena Obradović;Janette E Herbers

Frequent Co-Authors

Ann S. Masten
Ann S. Masten University of Minnesota
W. Thomas Boyce
W. Thomas Boyce University of California, San Francisco
Jeffrey D. Long
Jeffrey D. Long University of Iowa
Nancy E. Adler
Nancy E. Adler University of California, San Francisco
Charles A. Nelson
Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital
Byron Egeland
Byron Egeland University of Minnesota
Megan R. Gunnar
Megan R. Gunnar University of Minnesota
Glenn I. Roisman
Glenn I. Roisman University of Minnesota
Rolf Loeber
Rolf Loeber University of Pittsburgh
Auke Tellegen
Auke Tellegen University of Minnesota

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