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Overview

Leslie Rescorla was affiliated with Bryn Mawr College in the United States and contributed extensively to the field of psychology, focusing primarily on child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development. Their work spanned clinical psychology, health, experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology and political science, and social psychology.

The research topics addressed by Leslie Rescorla included:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology

Leslie Rescorla published several recent papers that encompassed a range of issues in clinical and developmental psychology. Some notable publications were:

  • Meta-Analysis on Parent-Teacher Agreement on Preschoolers' Emotional and Behavioural Problems, 2020, Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Childhood loneliness as a specific risk factor for adult psychiatric disorders, 2021, Psychological Medicine
  • Learning Disabilities Elevate Children's Risk for Behavioral-Emotional Problems: Differences Between LD Types, Genders, and Contexts, 2021, Journal of Learning Disabilities
  • From Parent to Child to Parent: Associations Between Parent and Offspring Psychopathology, 2020, Child Development
  • Older adult psychopathology: international comparisons of self-reports, collateral reports, and cross-informant agreement, 2020, International Psychogeriatrics

Their frequent coauthors included:

  • Masha Y. Ivanova
  • Thomas M. Achenbach
  • Yasuko Funabiki
  • Kyung Ja Oh
  • Elvisa Sokoli

Leslie Rescorla's work appeared in a number of publication venues, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their research:

  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Journal of Learning Disabilities
  • International Psychogeriatrics
  • Child Development

Best Publications

  • The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Dimensional Alternative to Traditional Nosologies

    Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson;Thomas M. Achenbach

  • The Language Development Survey: a screening tool for delayed language in toddlers.

    Leslie Rescorla

  • DSM-oriented and empirically based approaches to constructing scales from the same item pools.

    Thomas M Achenbach;Levent Dumenci;Leslie A Rescorla

  • Internalizing/Externalizing Problems: Review and Recommendations for Clinical and Research Applications

    Thomas M. Achenbach;Masha Y. Ivanova;Leslie A. Rescorla;Lori V. Turner

  • Testing the 8-syndrome structure of the child behavior checklist in 30 societies

    Masha Y Ivanova;Anca Dobrean;Manfred Dopfner;Nese Erol

  • Behavioral and Emotional Problems Reported by Parents of Children Ages 6 to 16 in 31 Societies

    Leslie Rescorla;Thomas Achenbach;Masha Y. Ivanova;Levent Dumenci

  • Progress in achieving quantitative classification of psychopathology

    Robert F. Krueger;Roman Kotov;David Watson;Miriam K. Forbes

  • Late-emerging reading disabilities.

    Jennifer Mirak Leach;Hollis S. Scarborough;Leslie A. Rescorla

  • The generalizability of the Youth Self-Report syndrome structure in 23 societies.

    Masha Y. Ivanova;Thomas M. Achenbach;Leslie A. Rescorla;Levent Dumenci

  • Cross-Informant Agreement Between Parent-Reported and Adolescent Self-Reported Problems in 25 Societies

    Leslie A. Rescorla;Sofia Ginzburg;Thomas M. Achenbach;Masha Y. Ivanova

  • Language and reading outcomes to age 9 in late-talking toddlers.

    Leslie Rescorla

  • Ten-Year Comparisons of Problems and Competencies for National Samples of Youth: Self, Parent, and Teacher Reports

    Thomas M. Achenbach;Levent Dumenci;Leslie A. Rescorla

  • Age 17 Language and Reading Outcomes in Late-Talking Toddlers: Support for a Dimensional Perspective on Language Delay

    Leslie Rescorla

  • Preschool Psychopathology Reported by Parents in 23 Societies: Testing the Seven-Syndrome Model of the Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 1.5-5

    Masha Y. Ivanova;Thomas M. Achenbach;Leslie A. Rescorla;Valerie S. Harder

  • Epidemiological comparisons of problems and positive qualities reported by adolescents in 24 countries

    Leslie Rescorla;Thomas M. Achenbach;Masha Y. Ivanova;Levent Dumenci

  • Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL),Youth Self-Report (YSR) and Teacher's Report Form(TRF): an overview of the development of the original and Brazilian versions

    Isabel Altenfelder Santos Bordin;Marina M. Rocha;Cristiane Silvestre de Paula;Cristiane Silvestre de Paula;Maria Cristina T. V. Teixeira

  • Validation of the language development survey (LDS): a parent report tool for identifying language delay in toddlers.

    Leslie Rescorla;Amie Alley

  • International comparisons of behavioral and emotional problems in preschool children: parents' reports from 24 societies.

    Leslie A. Rescorla;Thomas M. Achenbach;Masha Y. Ivanova;Valerie S. Harder

  • Ratings of Relations Between DSM-IV Diagnostic Categories and Items of the CBCL/6-18, TRF, and YSR

    Thomas M. Achenbach;Levent Dumenci;Leslie A. Rescorla

  • Assessment of young children using the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA)

    Leslie A. Rescorla

  • Outcome of toddlers with specific expressive language delay

    Leslie Rescorla;Ellen Schwartz

  • The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment.

    Thomas M. Achenbach;Leslie A. Rescorla

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas M. Achenbach
Thomas M. Achenbach University of Vermont
Masha Y. Ivanova
Masha Y. Ivanova University of Vermont
Patrick W. L. Leung
Patrick W. L. Leung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Niels Bilenberg
Niels Bilenberg University of Southern Denmark
Hans-Christoph Steinhausen
Hans-Christoph Steinhausen University of Southern Denmark
Levent Dumenci
Levent Dumenci Temple University
Hector R. Bird
Hector R. Bird Columbia University
Robert R. Althoff
Robert R. Althoff University of Vermont
Manfred Döpfner
Manfred Döpfner University of Cologne
Daniel S. S. Fung
Daniel S. S. Fung Institute of Mental Health

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