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Martha E. Wadsworth is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily centers on the field of Psychology, with a strong focus on Clinical Psychology. Other subfields of interest include Education, Behavioral Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their work covers several key topics, notably Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Early Childhood Education and Development, and Stress Responses and Cortisol. Additional areas include Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, Resilience and Mental Health, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, as well as Family and Disability Support Research.

Wadsworth has contributed to various academic journals, with frequent publications in Biological Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology. Other venues include the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, and the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

  • Individual Differences in Adolescent Coping: Comparing a Community Sample and a Low-SES Sample to Understand Coping in Context (2021, Journal of Youth and Adolescence)
  • The protective roles of ethnic identity, social support, and coping on depression in low-income parents: A test of the adaptation to poverty-related stress model (2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)
  • Gardening Is Associated With Better Cardiovascular Health Status Among Older Adults in the United States: Analysis of the 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey (2022, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics)
  • Coping with poverty-related stress: A narrative review (2022, Developmental Review)
  • Targeting the Proximal Mechanisms of Stress Adaptation in Early Adolescence to Prevent Mental Health Problems in Youth in Poverty (2022, Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology)

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Holly T. Pham, Jason José Bendezú, Chelsea O. Mayo, Jarl A. Ahlkvist, and Adithi Rajagopalan.

Best Publications

  • Coping with stress during childhood and adolescence: problems, progress, and potential in theory and research.

    Bruce E. Compas;Jennifer K. Connor-Smith;Heidi Saltzman;Alexandria Harding Thomsen

  • Responses to Stress in Adolescence: Measurement of Coping and Involuntary Stress Responses

    Jennifer K. Connor-Smith;Bruce E. Compas;Martha E. Wadsworth;Alexandra Harding Thomsen

  • Socioeconomic status, neighborhood disadvantage, and poverty-related stress: Prospective effects on psychological syndromes among diverse low-income families

    Catherine De Carlo Santiago;Martha E. Wadsworth;Jessica Stump

  • Best Practices in Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Class in Psychological Research

    Matthew A. Diemer;Rashmita S. Mistry;Martha E. Wadsworth;Irene López

  • Coping with Family Conflict and Economic Strain: The Adolescent Perspective

    Martha E. Wadsworth;Bruce E. Compas

  • Explaining the link between low socioeconomic status and psychopathology: testing two mechanisms of the social causation hypothesis.

    Martha E. Wadsworth;Thomas M. Achenbach

  • Adjustment of children and adolescents to parental cancer: Parents' and children's perspectives

    Amy S. Welch;E B A Martha Wadsworth;Bruce E. Compas

  • Parent and adolescent responses to povertyRelated stress: Tests of mediated and moderated coping models

    Martha Ellen Wadsworth;Tali Raviv;Bruce E. Compas;Jennifer K. Connor-Smith

  • Screening for DSM-IV externalizing disorders with the child behavior checklist: a receiver-operating characteristic analysis

    James J. Hudziak;William Copeland;Catherine Stanger;Martha Wadsworth

  • An Indirect Effects Model of the Association Between Poverty and Child Functioning: The Role of Children's Poverty-Related Stress

    Martha E. Wadsworth;Tali Raviv;Christine Reinhard;Brian Wolff

  • Development of Maladaptive Coping: A Functional Adaptation to Chronic, Uncontrollable Stress

    Martha E. Wadsworth

  • Risk and resiliency processes in ethnically diverse families in poverty.

    Martha Ellen Wadsworth;Catherine DeCarlo Santiago

  • Adolescents Coping with Poverty-Related Family Stress: Prospective Predictors of Coping and Psychological Symptoms

    Martha E. Wadsworth;Lauren E. Berger

  • Latent class analysis of child behavior checklist anxiety/depression in children and adolescents.

    Martha E. Wadsworth;James J. Hudziak;Andrew C. Heath;Thomas M. Achenbach

  • Coping and responses to stress in Navajo adolescents: Psychometric properties of the Responses to Stress Questionnaire

    Martha E. Wadsworth;Traci Rieckmann;Molly A. Benson;Bruce E. Compas

  • Where's the action? Understanding what works and why in relationship education.

    Martha E. Wadsworth;Howard J. Markman

  • Coping with Family Conflict: What’s Helpful and What’s Not for Low-income Adolescents

    Catherine DeCarlo Santiago;Martha E. Wadsworth

  • Coping with displacement from Hurricane Katrina: predictors of one-year post-traumatic stress and depression symptom trajectories

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  • Father Involvement in Urban Low‐Income Fathers: Baseline Associations and Changes Resulting From Preventive Intervention

    Shauna L. Rienks;Martha Ellen Wadsworth;Howard J. Markman;Lindsey Einhorn

  • Cross-national comparison of the link between socioeconomic status and emotional and behavioral problems in youths

    Floor V. A. van Oort;Jan van der Ende;Martha E. Wadsworth;Frank C. Verhulst

  • Coping with Terrorism: Age and Gender Differences in Effortful and Involuntary Responses to September 11th.

    Martha E. Wadsworth;Gretchen R. Gudmundsen;Tali Raviv;Jarl A. Ahlkvist

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard J. Markman
Howard J. Markman University of Denver
Bruce E. Compas
Bruce E. Compas Vanderbilt University
James J. Hudziak
James J. Hudziak University of Vermont
Benjamin L. Hankin
Benjamin L. Hankin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thomas M. Achenbach
Thomas M. Achenbach University of Vermont
Rashmita S. Mistry
Rashmita S. Mistry University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel N. McIntosh
Daniel N. McIntosh University of Denver
Andrew C. Heath
Andrew C. Heath Washington University in St. Louis
Gary W. Evans
Gary W. Evans Cornell University
Kathryn E. Grant
Kathryn E. Grant DePaul University

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