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Marion O'Brien is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the United States. Their research contributions focus largely on psychosocial factors impacting youth, with publications engaging topics related to developmental psychology and social competence.

Their recent scholarly output includes work published primarily in the venue UNC Libraries. Significant papers from 2020 include "Parenting Stress, Parental Reactions, and Externalizing Behavior From Ages 4 to 10" and "Identifying developmental cascades among differentiated dimensions of social competence and emotion regulation."

  • Parenting Stress, Parental Reactions, and Externalizing Behavior From Ages 4 to 10 (2020, UNC Libraries)
  • Identifying developmental cascades among differentiated dimensions of social competence and emotion regulation (2020, UNC Libraries)

Coauthorship plays a role in their research, with frequent collaborators including Lilly Shanahan, Susan D. Calkins, Susan P. Keane, Jennifer S. Mackler, and Rachael Kelleher. Several of these coauthors have contributed to multiple joint publications.

  • Lilly Shanahan
  • Susan D. Calkins
  • Susan P. Keane
  • Jennifer S. Mackler
  • Rachael Kelleher

Their work intersects with the disciplines of sociology and political science, reflecting the subfield interest in understanding social dynamics and developmental processes in youth populations.

  • Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth

Best Publications

  • Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity from ages 9 to 15 years.

    Philip R. Nader;Robert H. Bradley;Renate M. Houts;Susan L. McRitchie

  • Identifying risk for obesity in early childhood.

    Philip R. Nader;Philip R. Nader;Marion O'Brien;Renate Houts;Robert Bradley

  • Differential Effects of Maternal Sensitivity to Infant Distress and Nondistress on Social-Emotional Functioning

    Esther M. Leerkes;A. Nayena Blankson;Marion O’Brien

  • Family stress and parental responses to children's negative emotions: tests of the spillover, crossover, and compensatory hypotheses.

    Jackie A. Nelson;Marion O'Brien;A. Nayena Blankson;Susan D. Calkins

  • Nonmaternal Care and Family Factors in Early Development: An Overview of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care

    Virginia Allhusen;Mark Appelbaum;Jay Belsky;Cathryn L. Booth

  • Duration and Developmental Timing of Poverty and Children's Cognitive and Social Development from Birth Through Third Grade.

    Virginia Allhusen;Jay Belsky;Cathryn Booth-LaForce;Robert Bradley

  • The longitudinal relations of teacher expectations to achievement in the early school years.

    J. Benjamin Hinnant;Marion O'Brien;Sharon R. Ghazarian

  • Do regulable features of child-care homes affect children's development?

    K.Alison Clarke-Stewart;Deborah Lowe Vandell;Margaret Burchinal;Marion O’Brien

  • Child-care effect sizes for the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development

    A Huston;C. Booth-LaForce;Robert Bradley;C. Brownell

  • Individual differences in trajectories of emotion regulation processes: The effects of maternal depressive symptomatology and children’s physiological regulation.

    Alysia Y. Blandon;Susan D. Calkins;Susan P. Keane;Marion O'Brien

  • Parenting Stress, Parental Reactions, and Externalizing Behavior From Ages 4 to 10

    Jennifer S. Mackler;Rachael T. Kelleher;Lilly Shanahan;Susan D. Calkins

  • Familial factors associated with the characteristics of nonmaternal care for infants

    Mark Appelbaum;Dee Ann Batten;Jay Belsky;Cathryn Booth

  • The Gifted and talented : developmental perspectives

    Frances Degen Horowitz;Marion O'Brien

  • Child care and children's peer interaction at 24 and 36 months: The NICHD study of early child care - NICHD early child care research network

    Mark Appelbaum;Dee Ann Batten;Jay Belsky;Cathryn Booth

  • Type of child care and children's development at 54 months

    Virginia Allhusen;Jay Belsky;Cathryn L. Booth;Robert Bradley

  • Infant-mother attachment classification: Risk and protection in relation to changing maternal caregiving quality

    Jay Belsky;Jay Belsky;Cathryn L. Booth-LaForce;Robert Bradley;Celia A. Brownell

  • Frequency and intensity of activity of third-grade children in physical education.

    Jay Belsky;Cathryn Booth;Robert Bradley;Celia A. Brownell

  • Testing a developmental cascade model of emotional and social competence and early peer acceptance

    Alysia Y. Blandon;Susan D. Calkins;Kevin J. Grimm;Susan P. Keane

  • The ecology of childhood overweight: a 12-year longitudinal analysis.

    M O'Brien;PR Nader;Renate Houts;R Bradley

  • Emotion and Cognition Processes in Preschool Children

    Esther M. Leerkes;Matthew John Paradise;Marion O'Brien;Susan D. Calkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan D. Calkins
Susan D. Calkins University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Esther M. Leerkes
Esther M. Leerkes University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Susan P. Keane
Susan P. Keane University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Stuart Marcovitch
Stuart Marcovitch University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Robert H. Bradley
Robert H. Bradley Arizona State University
Jay Belsky
Jay Belsky University of California, Davis
Sarah L. Friedman
Sarah L. Friedman George Washington University
Deborah Lowe Vandell
Deborah Lowe Vandell University of California, Irvine
Aletha C. Huston
Aletha C. Huston The University of Texas at Austin
Robert C. Pianta
Robert C. Pianta University of Virginia

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