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Overview

Kirby Deater-Deckard is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and social sciences, with a primary focus on child and adolescent development.

The main fields of study for Kirby Deater-Deckard include Psychology and Social Sciences, with a particular emphasis on these subfields:

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

Themes central to their research cover several topics related to development and well-being, including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Kirby Deater-Deckard has published extensively in academic journals with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Journal of Family Psychology
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • Developmental Psychology

Selected recent papers exemplify the scope of their research interests and include:

  • "Effects of Parental Warmth and Behavioral Control on Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Trajectories Across Cultures" (2020) - Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • "Effects of Parental Acceptance-Rejection on Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors: A Longitudinal, Multicultural Study" (2021) - Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • "Longitudinal associations between mothers' and fathers' anger/irritability expressiveness, harsh parenting, and adolescents' socioemotional functioning in nine countries." (2020) - Developmental Psychology
  • "Cross-Cultural Examination of Links between Parent-Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Psychological Problems in 12 Cultural Groups" (2020) - Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • "Inhibitory Control Across the Preschool Years: Developmental Changes and Associations with Parenting" (2020) - Child Development

Collaborations are a notable part of their work, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Marc H. Bornstein
  • Jennifer E. Lansford
  • Ann T. Skinner
  • Kenneth A. Dodge
  • Emma Sorbring

Their research integrates cross-cultural and developmental perspectives, focusing on parenting behaviors, emotional regulation, and adolescent psychological outcomes. This work contributes knowledge on how family dynamics impact child and adolescent psychosocial health across diverse cultural settings.

Best Publications

  • Parenting Stress and Child Adjustment: Some Old Hypotheses and New Questions

    Kirby Deater-Deckard

  • Physical discipline among African American and European American mothers: Links to children's externalizing behaviors.

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Kenneth A. Dodge;John E. Bates;Gregory S. Pettit

  • Externalizing Behavior Problems and Discipline Revisited: Nonlinear Effects and Variation by Culture, Context, and Gender

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Kenneth A. Dodge

  • Multiple risk factors in the development of externalizing behavior problems: group and individual differences.

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Kenneth A. Dodge;John E. Bates;Gregory S. Pettit

  • Physical discipline and children's adjustment: Cultural normativeness as a moderator

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Lei Chang;Kenneth A. Dodge;Patrick S. Malone

  • Parenting stress among dual-earner mothers and fathers: Are there gender differences?

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Sandra Scarr

  • Intergenerational transmission of self-regulation: A multidisciplinary review and integrative conceptual framework.

    David J. Bridgett;Nicole M. Burt;Erin S. Edwards;Kirby Deater-Deckard

  • Genotype-environment correlations in late childhood and early adolescence: antisocial behavioral problems and coercive parenting.

    Thomas G. O'Connor;Kirby Deater-Deckard;David Fulker;Michael Rutter

  • Annotation: Recent Research Examining the Role of Peer Relationships in the Development of Psychopathology

    Kirby Deater-Deckard

  • Parent discipline practices in an international sample: associations with child behaviors and moderation by perceived normativeness

    Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff;Andrew Grogan-Kaylor;Jennifer E. Lansford;Lei Chang

  • Ethnic differences in the link between physical discipline and later adolescent externalizing behaviors.

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Kirby Deater-Deckard;Kenneth A. Dodge;John E. Bates

  • Measurement of quality in child care centers

    Sandra Scarr;Marlene Eisenberg;Kirby Deater-Deckard

  • Maternal emotion and cognitive control capacities and parenting: A conceptual framework

    Alice Ann Crandall;Kirby Deater-Deckard;Anne W. Riley

  • Do risk factors for problem behaviour act in a cumulative manner? An examination of ethnic minority and majority children through an ecological perspective

    Naama Atzaba-Poria;Alison Pike;Kirby Deater-Deckard

  • Children's Adjustment and Prosocial Behaviour in Step‐, Single‐parent, and Non‐stepfamily Settings: Findings from a Community Study

    Judy Dunn;Kirby Deater-Deckard;Kevin Pickering;Thomas G. O'Connor

  • Parenting Stress

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  • Maternal executive function, harsh parenting, and child conduct problems

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Zhe Wang;Nan Chen;Martha Ann Bell

  • Boys’ and Girls’ Relational and Physical Aggression in Nine Countries

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Ann T. Skinner;Emma Sorbring;Laura Di Giunta

  • Parenting and child behavioral adjustment in early childhood: A quantitative genetic approach to studying family processes.

    Kirby Deater-Deckard

  • Corporal punishment, maternal warmth, and child adjustment: a longitudinal study in eight countries

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Chinmayi Sharma;Patrick S. Malone;Darren Woodlief

  • Sibling relationships and social-emotional adjustment in different family contexts.

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Judy Dunn

  • Immigrant families in contemporary society

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Kirby D. Deater-Deckard;Marc H. Bornstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer E. Lansford
Jennifer E. Lansford Duke University
Marc H. Bornstein
Marc H. Bornstein National Institutes of Health
Kenneth A. Dodge
Kenneth A. Dodge Duke University
Suha M. Al-Hassan
Suha M. Al-Hassan Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority
Ann T. Skinner
Ann T. Skinner Duke University
Lei Chang
Lei Chang University of Macau
Sombat Tapanya
Sombat Tapanya Chiang Mai University
Concetta Pastorelli
Concetta Pastorelli Sapienza University of Rome
Laura Di Giunta
Laura Di Giunta Sapienza University of Rome
Stephen A. Petrill
Stephen A. Petrill The Ohio State University

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