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Overview

Kathryn A. Kerns is affiliated with Kent State University in the United States and specializes in psychology, with a primary focus on social and clinical psychology. Their body of work encompasses research on child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, attachment and relationship dynamics, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, and family dynamics and relationships.

The main fields of study covered by Kathryn A. Kerns include:

  • Psychology

Within psychology, they have contributed notably to subfields such as:

  • Social Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Demography

Their research topics frequently address themes including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Family and Disability Support Research

Kathryn A. Kerns has published extensively in several journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Emotion
  • Social Development
  • The Journal of Early Adolescence
  • Attachment & Human Development

Recent papers from their research portfolio include:

  • "Anxiety, academic achievement, and academic self-concept: Meta-analytic syntheses of their relations across developmental periods," 2022, Development and Psychopathology
  • "A literature review of gratitude, parent-child relationships, and well-being in children," 2021, Developmental Review
  • "Clinical risk factors, emotional reactivity/regulation and suicidal ideation in elementary school-aged children," 2021, Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • "Dynamics of attachment and emotion regulation in daily life: uni- and bidirectional associations," 2022, Cognition & Emotion
  • "Children's Exploration of Their Surrogacy Origins in Gay Two-Father Families: Longitudinal Associations With Child Attachment Security and Parental Scaffolding During Discussions About Conception," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Laura E. Brumariu
  • Marissa Gastelle
  • Logan B. Kochendorfer
  • Carli A. Obeldobel
  • Stephanie M. Waslin

Best Publications

  • Peer Relationships and Preadolescents' Perceptions of Security in the Child-Mother Relationship.

    Kathryn A. Kerns;Lisa Klepac;AmyKay Cole

  • Parent-child attachment and internalizing symptoms in childhood and adolescence: A review of empirical findings and future directions

    Laura E. Brumariu;Kathryn A. Kerns

  • Associations between insecure attachment and sexual experiences

    Amy L. Gentzler;Kathryn A. Kerns

  • Parent-child attachment and monitoring in middle childhood.

    Kathryn A. Kerns;Jeffery E. Aspelmeier;Amy L. Gentzler;Chandra M. Grabill

  • Emotion regulation as a mediator of associations between mother–child attachment and peer relationships in middle childhood.

    Josefina M. Contreras;Kathryn A. Kerns;Barbara L. Weimer;Amy L. Gentzler

  • Attachment in middle childhood.

    Kathryn A. Kerns;Rhonda A. Richardson

  • Attachment-based assessments of parent-child relationships in middle childhood

    Kathryn A. Kerns;Patricia L. Tomich;Jeffery E. Aspelmeier;Josefina M. Contreras

  • Parent-child attachment and children's experience and regulation of emotion: A meta-analytic review

    Jessica E Cooke;Logan B Kochendorfer;Kaela L Stuart-Parrigon;Amanda J Koehn

  • Mother – child attachment in later middle childhood: Assessment approaches and associations with mood and emotion regulation

    Kathryn A. Kerns;Michelle M. Abraham;Andrew Schlegelmilch;Theresa A. Morgan

  • Attachment in Middle Childhood: Progress and Prospects.

    Guy Bosmans;Kathryn A. Kerns

  • Normative Trends in Children's Perceptions of Availability and Utilization of Attachment Figures in Middle Childhood.

    Kathryn A. Kerns;Patricia L. Tomich;Patricia Kim

  • Latino children and families in the United States : current research and future directions

    Kent Psychology Forum;Josefina M. Contreras;Kathryn A. Kerns;Angela M. Neal-Barnett

  • Family and peers : linking two social worlds

    Kathryn A. Kerns;Josefina M. Contreras;Angela M. Neal-Barnett

  • Parent-child attachment in late adolescence: Links to social relations and personality

    Kathryn A. Kerns;Amy C. Stevens

  • Attachment and Play: Convergence Across Components of Parent-Child Relationships and their Relations to Peer Competence

    Kathryn A. Kerns;Joan M. Barth

  • Is Insecure Parent-Child Attachment a Risk Factor for the Development of Anxiety in Childhood or Adolescence?

    Kathryn A. Kerns;Laura E. Brumariu

  • Parent–child attachment: Meta-analysis of associations with parenting behaviors in middle childhood and adolescence.

    Amanda J Koehn;Kathryn A Kerns

  • Parent–Child Emotional Communication and Children's Coping in Middle Childhood

    Amy L. Gentzler;Josefina M. Contreras-Grau;Kathryn A. Kerns;Barbara L. Weimer

  • Emotional reactions and regulatory responses to negative and positive events: Associations with attachment and gender

    Amy L. Gentzler;Kathryn A. Kerns;Emily Keener

  • Assessing both safe haven and secure base support in parent-child relationships.

    Kathryn A Kerns;Brittany L Mathews;Amanda J Koehn;Cierra T Williams

  • Attachment style and intimacy in friendship

    Chandra M. Grabill;Kathryn A. Kerns

  • Mother–child attachment, emotion regulation, and anxiety symptoms in middle childhood

    Laura E. Brumariu;Kathryn A. Kerns;Ashley Seibert

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto Baiocco
Roberto Baiocco Sapienza University of Rome
Karlen Lyons-Ruth
Karlen Lyons-Ruth Harvard University
Manfred H. M. van Dulmen
Manfred H. M. van Dulmen Kent State University
Sheri Madigan
Sheri Madigan University of Calgary
Jeffrey A. Ciesla
Jeffrey A. Ciesla Kent State University
Miri Scharf
Miri Scharf University of Haifa
John A. Updegraff
John A. Updegraff Kent State University
Caroline Braet
Caroline Braet Ghent University

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