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Overview

Maria A. Gartstein is affiliated with Washington State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in psychology and medicine. Their research focuses on both broad psychological topics and applied public health concerns, particularly in the areas of child development and maternal health.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, Gartstein has published significantly in subfields such as:

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

The scientist has worked on topics including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects

Maria A. Gartstein has coauthored numerous studies with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Samuel P. Putnam
  • Jennifer A. Mattera
  • Brian F. French
  • Zhengyan Wang
  • Carolina de Weerth

Their publication record includes articles in journals with repeated contributions such as:

  • Infant Behavior and Development
  • PLoS ONE
  • Early Human Development
  • Developmental Psychobiology
  • Infancy

Selected recent publications by Maria A. Gartstein include:

  • "Stressors, coping, and resources needed during the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of perinatal women" (2021), published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • "Daily Cannabis Use During Pregnancy and Postpartum in a State With Legalized Recreational Cannabis" (2020), published in Journal of Addiction Medicine
  • "Dynamics of frontal alpha asymmetry in mother-infant dyads: Insights from the Still Face Paradigm" (2020), published in Infant Behavior and Development
  • "The Global Temperament Project: Parent-reported temperament in infants, toddlers, and children from 59 nations" (2024), published in Developmental Psychology
  • "Social support buffers the effects of maternal prenatal stress on infants' unpredictability" (2021), published in Early Human Development

Gartstein has also contributed to academic literature through book publications, including the 2024 work titled Temperament and Child Development in Context, published by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Studying infant temperament via the Revised Infant Behavior Questionnaire

    Maria A Gartstein;Mary K Rothbart

  • Measurement of fine-grained aspects of toddler temperament: The Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire.

    Samuel P. Putnam;Maria A. Gartstein;Mary K. Rothbart

  • Development and Assessment of Short and Very Short Forms of the Infant Behavior Questionnaire–Revised

    Samuel P Putnam;Amy L Helbig;Maria A Gartstein;Mary K Rothbart

  • Homotypic and heterotypic continuity of fine-grained temperament during infancy, toddlerhood, and early childhood

    Samuel P. Putnam;Mary K. Rothbart;Maria A. Gartstein

  • Social, emotional, and behavioral functioning of children with cancer.

    R B Noll;M A Gartstein;K Vannatta;J Correll

  • Etiology of preschool behavior problems: Contributions of temperament attributes in early childhood

    Maria A. Gartstein;Samuel P. Putnam;Mary K. Rothbart

  • A Controlled Study of Peer Relationships of Children Surviving Brain Tumors: Teacher, Peer, and Self Ratings

    Kathryn Vannatta;Maria A. Gartstein;Amy Short;Robert B. Noll

  • Maternal and contextual influences and the effect of temperament development during infancy on parenting in toddlerhood.

    David J. Bridgett;Maria A. Gartstein;Samuel P. Putnam;Talia McKay

  • Depressed mood and maternal report of child behavior problems: Another look at the depression–distortion hypothesis☆

    Maria A. Gartstein;David J. Bridgett;Thomas J. Dishion;Noah K. Kaufman

  • Parental depression, parenting and family adjustment, and child effortful control: Explaining externalizing behaviors for preschool children.

    Maria A. Gartstein;Beverly I. Fagot

  • A latent growth examination of fear development in infancy: contributions of maternal depression and the risk for toddler anxiety.

    Maria A. Gartstein;David J. Bridgett;Mary K. Rothbart;Christopher Robertson

  • Emerging effortful control in toddlerhood: the role of infant orienting/regulation, maternal effortful control, and maternal time spent in caregiving activities.

    David J. Bridgett;Maria A. Gartstein;Samuel P. Putnam;Kate Oddi Lance

  • Prenatal influences on temperament development: The role of environmental epigenetics.

    Maria A. Gartstein;Michael K. Skinner

  • The impact of maternal childhood abuse on parenting and infant temperament.

    Ariel J. Lang;Maria A. Gartstein;Carie S. Rodgers;Meredith M. Lebeck

  • Peer acceptance and social behavior during childhood and adolescence: How important are appearance, athleticism, and academic competence?

    Kathryn Vannatta;Maria A. Gartstein;Meg Zeller;Robert B. Noll

  • Fear and positive affectivity in infancy: convergence/discrepancy between parent-report and laboratory-based indicators.

    Maria A. Gartstein;Julia Marmion

  • Infant Temperament: Stability by Age, Gender, Birth Order, Term Status, and Socioeconomic Status

    Marc H. Bornstein;Diane L. Putnick;Maria A. Gartstein;Chun-Shin Hahn

  • Studying Cross-cultural Differences in the Development of Infant Temperament: People’s Republic of China, the United States of America, and Spain

    Maria A. Gartstein;Carmen Gonzalez;Jose A. Carranza;Stephan A. Ahadi

  • Neuropsychological Functioning of Youths With Sickle Cell Disease: Comparison With Non-Chronically Ill Peers

    Robert B. Noll;Laura Stith;Maria A. Gartstein;M. Douglas Ris

  • Stressors, coping, and resources needed during the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of perinatal women.

    Celestina Barbosa-Leiker;Crystal Lederhos Smith;Erica J. Crespi;Olivia Brooks

  • Cross-cultural differences in temperament in the first year of life: United States of America (US) and Russia

    Maria A. Gartstein;Helena R. Slobodskaya;Irina A. Kinsht

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel P. Putnam
Samuel P. Putnam Bowdoin College
Mary K. Rothbart
Mary K. Rothbart University of Oregon
David J. Bridgett
David J. Bridgett Northern Illinois University
Robert B. Noll
Robert B. Noll University of Pittsburgh
Rosario Montirosso
Rosario Montirosso Eugenio Medea
Katri Räikkönen
Katri Räikkönen University of Helsinki
Carolina de Weerth
Carolina de Weerth Radboud University
Martha Ann Bell
Martha Ann Bell Virginia Tech
Liliana J. Lengua
Liliana J. Lengua University of Washington
Kathryn Vannatta
Kathryn Vannatta The Ohio State University

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