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Overview

Joann Wu Shortt is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans Social Sciences and Psychology, with a focus on subfields such as Clinical Psychology, Health, General Health Professions, Education, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work concentrates on key topics including:

  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Joann Wu Shortt include:

  • Associations of exposure to intimate partner violence and parent-to-child aggression with child competence and psychopathology symptoms in two generations (2020), published in Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences and Intimate Partner Violence Among Youth in Cambodia: A Latent Class Analysis (2022), published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Associations between partner violence, parenting, and children's adjustment: A dyadic framework (2021), published in Journal of Family Psychology
  • Path Analysis of Adverse Childhood Experiences, Early Marriage, Early Pregnancy, and Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence Among Young Women in Honduras (2023), published in Journal of Family Violence
  • Advanced child tax credit payments and national child abuse hotline contacts, 2019-2022 (2024), published in Injury Prevention

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shortt are:

  • Stephanie Spaid Miedema
  • Sarah Huber-Krum
  • Leigh A. Willis
  • Vi Donna Le
  • Laura Chiang

Their publications appear mostly in journals such as:

  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Journal of Family Violence
  • Injury Prevention
  • Journal of Family Psychology

Best Publications

  • A Systematic Review of Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Violence

    Deborah M. Capaldi;Naomi B. Knoble;Joann Wu Shortt;Hyoun K. Kim

  • The relationship between heart rate reactivity, emotionally aggressive behavior, and general violence in batterers.

    John M. Gottman;Neil S. Jacobson;Regina H. Rushe;Joann Wu Shortt

  • The suppression of exciting thoughts.

    Daniel M. Wegner;Joann W. Shortt;Anne W. Blake;Michelle S. Page

  • Psychological factors in the longitudinal course of battering: when do the couples split up? When does the abuse decrease?

    Neil S. Jacobson;John M. Gottman;Eric Gortner;Sara Berns

  • Observed Initiation and Reciprocity of Physical Aggression in Young, At-Risk Couples

    Deborah M. Capaldi;Hyoun K. Kim;Joann Wu Shortt

  • Physical and Psychological Aggression in At-Risk Young Couples: Stability and Change in Young Adulthood

    Deborah M. Capaldi;Joann Wu Shortt;Lynn Crosby

  • Maternal emotion coaching, adolescent anger regulation, and siblings’ externalizing symptoms

    Joann Wu Shortt;Mike Stoolmiller;Jessica N. Smith-Shine;J. Mark Eddy

  • The contribution of parents and siblings to antisocial and depressive behavior in adolescents: a double jeopardy coercion model.

    Kristi L. Compton;James J. Snyder;Lynn M. Schrepferman;Lew Bank

  • A Life Span Developmental Systems Perspective on Aggression Toward a Partner.

    Deborah M. Capaldi;Joann Wu Shortt;Hyoun K. Kim

  • Women's Involvement in Aggression in Young Adult Romantic Relationships: A Developmental Systems Model.

    Deborah M. Capaldi;Hyoun K. Kim;Joann Wu Shortt

  • The suppression of exciting thoughts.

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  • Parental emotion socialization in clinically depressed adolescents: enhancing and dampening positive affect.

    Lynn Fainsilber Katz;Joann Wu Shortt;Nicholas B. Allen;Betsy Davis

  • Stability of intimate partner violence by men across 12 years in young adulthood: effects of relationship transitions.

    Joann Wu Shortt;Deborah M. Capaldi;Hyoun K. Kim;David C. R. Kerr

  • Closeness in Young Adult Sibling Relationships: Affective and Physiological Processes

    Joann Wu Shortt;John M. Gottman

  • How Do I Feel About Feelings? Emotion Socialization in Families of Depressed and Healthy Adolescents

    Erin C. Hunter;Lynn Fainsilber Katz;Joann Wu Shortt;Betsy Davis

  • Official incidents of domestic violence: types, injury, and associations with nonofficial couple aggression.

    Deborah M. Capaldi;Joann Wu Shortt;Hyoun K. Kim;Jonathan Wilson

  • Dynamics of affective experience and behavior in depressed adolescents

    Lisa B. Sheeber;Nicholas B. Allen;Craig Leve;Betsy Davis

  • The role of adolescent friends, romantic partners, and siblings in the emergence of the adult antisocial lifestyle

    Joann Wu Shortt;Deborah M. Capaldi;Thomas J. Dishion;Lew Bank

  • Talking Versus Hearing About Holocaust Experiences

    Joann Wu Shortt;James W. Pennebaker

  • Emotion socialization in the context of risk and psychopathology: Mother and father socialization of anger and sadness in adolescents with depressive disorder.

    Joann Wu Shortt;Lynn Fainsilber Katz;Nicholas B. Allen;Craig Leve

  • Development of a multisystemic parent management training intervention for incarcerated parents, their children and families

    J. Mark Eddy;Charles R. Martinez;Tracy Schiffmann;Rex Newton

Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah M. Capaldi
Deborah M. Capaldi University of Oregon
Hyoun K. Kim
Hyoun K. Kim Yonsei University
Lisa Sheeber
Lisa Sheeber Oregon Research Institute
J. Mark Eddy
J. Mark Eddy New York University
Nicholas B. Allen
Nicholas B. Allen University of Oregon
Lynn Fainsilber Katz
Lynn Fainsilber Katz University of Washington
John M. Gottman
John M. Gottman University of Washington
James J. Snyder
James J. Snyder Wichita State University
Neil S. Jacobson
Neil S. Jacobson University of Washington
Julian G Simmons
Julian G Simmons University of Melbourne

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