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Overview

Liliana J. Lengua is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their primary field of study is Psychology, with a significant focus on Clinical Psychology. Additional areas of research include Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their research explores various topics, notably:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Lengua has contributed to multiple papers, including:

  • "Promoting youth mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study" (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • "Corporal Punishment and Elevated Neural Response to Threat in Children" (2021), published in Child Development
  • "Language development as a mechanism linking socioeconomic status to executive functioning development in preschool" (2022), published in Developmental Science
  • "Impulsive States and Impulsive Traits: A Study of the Multilevel Structure and Validity of a Multifaceted Measure of Impulsive States" (2020), published in Assessment
  • "An empirical test of the model of socialization of emotion: Maternal and child contributors to preschoolers' emotion knowledge and adjustment." (2020), published in Developmental Psychology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Stephanie F. Thompson
  • Lisa Shimomaeda
  • Katie A. McLaughlin
  • Kevin M. King
  • Maureen Zalewski

Liliana J. Lengua's work is often published in venues such as:

  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Mindfulness
  • Assessment
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Anxiety Stress & Coping

The researcher has also contributed to book publications:

  • Temperament and Child Development in Context (2024), published by Cambridge University Press
  • Parenting With Temperament in Mind (2024), published by the American Psychological Association

Best Publications

  • Parenting Practices and Child Disruptive Behavior Problems in Early Elementary School

    Elizabeth A. Stormshak;Karen L. Bierman;Robert J. McMahon;Liliana J. Lengua

  • Parent Involvement in School Conceptualizing Multiple Dimensions and Their Relations with Family and Demographic Risk Factors

    Gwynne O. Kohl;Liliana J. Lengua;Robert J. McMahon

  • Nature and nurturing: parenting in the context of child temperament.

    Cara J. Kiff;Liliana J. Lengua;Maureen Zalewski

  • Contextual risk and parenting as predictors of effortful control and social competence in preschool children

    Liliana J. Lengua;Elizabeth Honorado;Nicole R. Bush

  • Bidirectional Associations between Temperament and Parenting and the Prediction of Adjustment Problems in Middle Childhood.

    Liliana J. Lengua;Erica A. Kovacs

  • Growth in temperament and parenting as predictors of adjustment during children's transition to adolescence.

    Liliana J. Lengua

  • The Contribution of Emotionality and Self-Regulation to the Understanding of Children's Response to Multiple Risk.

    Liliana J. Lengua

  • Predicting Developmental Outcomes at School Entry Using a Multiple-Risk Model: Four American Communities

    Mark T. Greenberg;Liliana J. Lengua;John D. Coie;Ellen E. Pinderhughes

  • Temperament as a predictor of symptomatology in children: addressing contamination of measures.

    Liliana J. Lengua;Stephen G. West;Irwin N. Sandler

  • The additive and interactive effects of parenting and temperament in predicting adjustment problems of children of divorce.

    Liliana J. Lengua;Sharlene A. Wolchik;Irwin N. Sandler;Stephen G. West

  • An experimental evaluation of theory-based mother and mother-child programs for children of divorce

    Sharlene A. Wolchik;Stephen G. West;Irwin N. Sandler;Jenn Yun Tein

  • Associations among emotionality, self-regulation, adjustment problems, and positive adjustment in middle childhood

    Liliana J Lengua

  • Gender, gender roles, and personality: Gender differences in the prediction of coping and psychological symptoms

    Liliana J. Lengua;Elizabeth A. Stormshak

  • The role of emotionality and self-regulation in the appraisal–coping process: tests of direct and moderating effects

    Liliana J Lengua;Anna C Long

  • Emotionality and self-regulation, threat appraisal, and coping in children of divorce

    Liliana J. Lengua;Irwin N. Sandler;Stephen G. West;Sharlene A. Wolchik

  • Effectiveness of Educational Materials Designed to Change Knowledge and Behaviors Regarding Crying and Shaken-Baby Syndrome in Mothers of Newborns: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

    Ronald G. Barr;Frederick P. Rivara;Marilyn Barr;Peter Cummings

  • Effortful control as a moderator of the relation between contextual risk factors and growth in adjustment problems.

    Liliana J. Lengua;Nicole R. Bush;Anna C. Long;Erica A. Kovacs

  • Prospective Associations of Internalizing and Externalizing Problems and Their Co-Occurrence with Early Adolescent Substance Use

    Craig R. Colder;Matthew Scalco;Elisa M. Trucco;Jennifer P. Read

  • Rationally and empirically derived dimensions of children's symptomatology: expert ratings and confirmatory factor analyses of the CBCL.

    Liliana J. Lengua;Christine A. Sadowski;William N. Friedrich;Jennifer Fisher

  • Adolescent school failure predicts later depression among girls.

    Carolyn A. McCarty;W. Alex Mason;Rick Kosterman;J. David Hawkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig R. Colder
Craig R. Colder University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Larry W. Hawk
Larry W. Hawk University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Jennifer P. Read
Jennifer P. Read University at Buffalo, State University of New York
William F. Wieczorek
William F. Wieczorek Buffalo State College
Kevin M. King
Kevin M. King University of Washington
Andrew N. Meltzoff
Andrew N. Meltzoff University of Washington
J. David Hawkins
J. David Hawkins University of Washington
W. Alex Mason
W. Alex Mason University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Rina D. Eiden
Rina D. Eiden Pennsylvania State University
Bruce E. Compas
Bruce E. Compas Vanderbilt University

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