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Kathryn A. Degnan is affiliated with the Catholic University of America in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with an emphasis on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology. Additional areas of study include psychiatry and mental health as well as education.

Their work covers a range of topics, notably child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Research interests also encompass COVID-19 and mental health, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, functional brain connectivity studies, bipolar disorder and treatment, and perfectionism, procrastination, and anxiety studies.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Social Development
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Among notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Kathryn A. Degnan are:

  • Infant behavioral inhibition predicts personality and social outcomes three decades later (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Transactional Associations Between Parent and Late Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Role of Avoidant Coping (2021), Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • The effects of mindfulness training on mindfulness, anxiety, emotion dysregulation, and performance satisfaction among female student-athletes: The moderating role of age (2021), Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • A Developmental Pathway From Early Behavioral Inhibition to Young Adults' Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021), Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Parenting and childhood irritability: Negative emotion socialization and parental control moderate the development of irritability (2022), Development and Psychopathology

They often collaborate with several co-authors, with frequent collaborators including:

  • Nathan A. Fox
  • Heather A. Henderson
  • Daniel S. Pine
  • Selin Zeytinoglu
  • Alisa N. Almas

Their research output, with 57 publications in psychology, shows a sustained focus on developmental and clinical aspects of mental health, particularly during childhood and adolescence. Within their subfields, clinical psychology accounts for the largest share with 32 publications, followed by experimental and cognitive psychology with 18 publications, and social psychology with 7.

Best Publications

  • Stable Early Maternal Report of Behavioral Inhibition Predicts Lifetime Social Anxiety Disorder in Adolescence

    Andrea Chronis-Tuscano;Kathryn Amey Degnan;Daniel S. Pine;Koraly Perez-Edgar

  • Profiles of externalizing behavior problems for boys and girls across preschool: the roles of emotion regulation and inattention.

    Ashley L. Hill;Kathryn A. Degnan;Susan D. Calkins;Susan P. Keane

  • Behavioral inhibition and anxiety disorders: multiple levels of a resilience process.

    Kathryn Amey Degnan;Nathan A. Fox

  • Impact of Behavioral Inhibition and Parenting Style on Internalizing and Externalizing Problems from Early Childhood through Adolescence

    Lela Rankin Williams;Kathryn A. Degnan;Koraly E. Perez-Edgar;Heather A. Henderson

  • Temperament and the environment in the etiology of childhood anxiety.

    Kathryn A. Degnan;Alisa N. Almas;Nathan A. Fox

  • Behavioral Inhibition and Anxiety: The Moderating Roles of Inhibitory Control and Attention Shifting

    Lauren K. White;Jennifer Martin McDermott;Kathryn A. Degnan;Heather A. Henderson

  • Attention biases to threat link behavioral inhibition to social withdrawal over time in very young children.

    Koraly Pérez-Edgar;Bethany C. Reeb-Sutherland;Jennifer Martin McDermott;Lauren K. White

  • Predicting Social Wariness in Middle Childhood: The Moderating Roles of Childcare History, Maternal Personality and Maternal Behavior

    Kathryn Amey Degnan;Heather A. Henderson;Nathan A. Fox;Kenneth H. Rubin

  • The effects of severe psychosocial deprivation and foster care intervention on cognitive development at 8 years of age: findings from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project

    Nathan A. Fox;Alisa N. Almas;Kathryn A. Degnan;Charles A. Nelson

  • Maternal Over-Control Moderates the Association Between Early Childhood Behavioral Inhibition and Adolescent Social Anxiety Symptoms

    Erin Lewis-Morrarty;Kathryn A. Degnan;Andrea Chronis-Tuscano;Kenneth H. Rubin

  • Longitudinal stability of temperamental exuberance and social-emotional outcomes in early childhood.

    Kathryn A. Degnan;Amie Ashley Hane;Heather A. Henderson;Olga Lydia Moas

  • Profiles of Disruptive Behavior Across Early Childhood: Contributions of Frustration Reactivity, Physiological Regulation, and Maternal Behavior

    Kathryn A. Degnan;Susan D. Calkins;Susan P. Keane;Ashley L. Hill-Soderlund

  • Predicting cardiac vagal regulation in early childhood from maternal-child relationship quality during toddlerhood.

    Susan D. Calkins;Paulo A. Graziano;Louise E. Berdan;Susan P. Keane

  • Attention to threats and combat-related posttraumatic stress symptoms: prospective associations and moderation by the serotonin transporter gene.

    Ilan Wald;Kathryn A. Degnan;Elena Gorodetsky;Dennis S. Charney

  • Infant Attachment Security and Early Childhood Behavioral Inhibition Interact to Predict Adolescent Social Anxiety Symptoms

    Erin Lewis-Morrarty;Kathryn A. Degnan;Andrea Chronis-Tuscano;Daniel S. Pine

  • Cognitive control moderates early childhood temperament in predicting social behavior in 7-year-old children: an ERP study

    Connie Lamm;Olga L. Walker;Kathryn A. Degnan;Heather A. Henderson

  • Developmental Relations Among Behavioral Inhibition, Anxiety, and Attention Biases to Threat and Positive Information

    Lauren K. White;Kathryn A. Degnan;Heather A. Henderson;Koraly Pérez-Edgar

  • Effects of early intervention and the moderating effects of brain activity on institutionalized children's social skills at age 8

    Alisa N. Almas;Kathryn A. Degnan;Anca Radulescu;Charles A. Nelson

  • Infant behavioral inhibition predicts personality and social outcomes three decades later

    Alva Tang;Haley Crawford;Santiago Morales;Kathryn A. Degnan

  • Patterns of Sustained Attention in Infancy Shape the Developmental Trajectory of Social Behavior from Toddlerhood through Adolescence.

    Koraly Pérez-Edgar;Jennifer N. Martin McDermott;Katherine Korelitz;Kathryn A. Degnan

  • Startle Response in Behaviorally Inhibited Adolescents With a Lifetime Occurrence of Anxiety Disorders

    Bethany C. Reeb-Sutherland;Sarah M. Helfinstein;Kathryn A. Degnan;Koraly Pérez-Edgar

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Heather A. Henderson
Heather A. Henderson University of Waterloo
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Andrea Chronis-Tuscano
Andrea Chronis-Tuscano University of Maryland, College Park
Koraly Pérez-Edgar
Koraly Pérez-Edgar Pennsylvania State University
Charles A. Nelson
Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital
Charles H. Zeanah
Charles H. Zeanah Tulane University
Susan D. Calkins
Susan D. Calkins University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Kenneth H. Rubin
Kenneth H. Rubin University of Maryland, College Park
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health

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