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Melissa L. Sturge-Apple

Melissa L. Sturge-Apple

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Psychology

D-Index
44
Citations
6843
World Ranking
7023
National Ranking
3795

Overview

Melissa L. Sturge-Apple is affiliated with the University of Rochester in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a focus on several subfields including clinical psychology, social psychology, demography, experimental and cognitive psychology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior

Melissa L. Sturge-Apple has contributed extensively to academic journals, with frequent publications in these venues:

  • Development and Psychopathology (14 publications)
  • Developmental Psychology (13 publications)
  • Journal of Family Psychology (8 publications)
  • Journal of Child and Family Studies (4 publications)
  • Child Development (2 publications)

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Sturge-Apple are:

  • Coparental discord and children's behavior problems: Children's negative family representations as an explanatory mechanism., 2020, Journal of Family Psychology
  • The cognitive costs and advantages of children's exposure to parental relationship instability: Testing an evolutionary-developmental hypothesis., 2022, Developmental Psychology
  • The importance of parent self-regulation and parent-child coregulation in research on parental discipline, 2022, Child Development Perspectives
  • Children's dove temperament as a differential susceptibility factor in child rearing contexts., 2021, Developmental Psychology
  • Understanding how and why effortful control moderates children's vulnerability to interparental conflict., 2020, Developmental Psychology

Collaborations have been a significant component of Sturge-Apple's scholarly output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Patrick T. Davies (42 collaborations)
  • Zhi Li (14 collaborations)
  • Morgan J. Thompson (9 collaborations)
  • Rochelle F. Hentges (8 collaborations)
  • Jesse L. Coe (7 collaborations)

Best Publications

  • Impact of Hostility and Withdrawal in Interparental Conflict on Parental Emotional Unavailability and Children's Adjustment Difficulties

    Melissa L. Sturge-Apple;Patrick T. Davies;E. Mark Cummings

  • Interactions of child maltreatment and serotonin transporter and monoamine oxidase A polymorphisms: depressive symptomatology among adolescents from low socioeconomic status backgrounds.

    Dante Cicchetti;Fred A. Rogosch;Melissa L. Sturge-Apple

  • The Role of Child Adrenocortical Functioning in Pathways Between Interparental Conflict and Child Maladjustment

    Patrick T. Davies;Melissa L. Sturge-Apple;Dante Cicchetti;E. Mark Cummings

  • Normalizing the development of cortisol regulation in maltreated infants through preventive interventions.

    Dante Cicchetti;Fred A. Rogosch;Sheree L. Toth;Melissa L. Sturge-Apple

  • Maternal Depression, Children's Attachment Security, and Representational Development: An Organizational Perspective

    Sheree L. Toth;Fred A. Rogosch;Melissa Sturge-Apple;Dante Cicchetti

  • Hostility and Withdrawal in Marital Conflict: Effects on Parental Emotional Unavailability and Inconsistent Discipline

    Melissa L. Sturge-Apple;Patrick T. Davies;E. Mark Cummings

  • Child adaptational development in contexts of interparental conflict over time

    Patrick T. Davies;Melissa L. Sturge-Apple;Marcia A. Winter;E. Mark Cummings

  • Typologies of Family Functioning and Children's Adjustment during the Early School Years.

    Melissa L. Sturge-Apple;Patrick T. Davies;E. Mark Cummings

  • Interparental Conflict and Children’s School Adjustment: The Explanatory Role of Children’s Internal Representations of Interparental and Parent–Child Relationships

    Melissa L. Sturge-Apple;Patrick T. Davies;Marcia A. Winter;E. Mark Cummings

  • Parenting Stress as a Mediator of the Relation Between Parenting Support and Optimal Parenting

    Darya D. Bonds;Dawn M. Gondoli;Melissa L. Sturge-Apple;Lindsay N. Salem

  • A process analysis of the transmission of distress from interparental conflict to parenting: Adult relationship security as an explanatory mechanism.

    Patrick T. Davies;Melissa L. Sturge-Apple;Meredith J. Woitach;E. Mark Cummings

  • Reciprocal associations between young children's developing moral judgments and theory of mind.

    Judith G. Smetana;Marc Jambon;Clare Conry-Murray;Melissa L. Sturge-Apple

  • Children's representations of family relationships, peer information processing, and school adjustment.

    Sonnette M. Bascoe;Patrick T. Davies;Melissa L. Sturge-Apple;E. Mark Cummings

  • Interparental violence, maternal emotional unavailability and children's cortisol functioning in family contexts

    Melissa L. Sturge-Apple;Patrick T. Davies;Dante Cicchetti;Liviah G. Manning

  • Adrenocortical underpinnings of children's psychological reactivity to interparental conflict.

    Patrick T. Davies;Melissa L. Sturge-Apple;Dante Cicchetti;E. Mark Cummings

  • Advances in the formulation of emotional security theory: an ethologically based perspective.

    Patrick T. Davies;Melissa L. Sturge-Apple

  • The multiple faces of interparental conflict: Implications for cascades of children's insecurity and externalizing problems.

    Patrick T. Davies;Rochelle F. Hentges;Jesse L. Coe;Meredith J. Martin

  • Vagal Tone and Children's Delay of Gratification: Differential Sensitivity in Resource-Poor and Resource-Rich Environments.

    Melissa L. Sturge-Apple;Jennifer H. Suor;Patrick T. Davies;Dante Cicchetti

  • Following My Head and My Heart: Integrating Preschoolers' Empathy, Theory of Mind, and Moral Judgments

    Courtney L. Ball;Judith G. Smetana;Melissa L. Sturge-Apple

  • Interaction of Child Maltreatment and 5-HTT Polymorphisms: Suicidal Ideation among Children from low-SES Backgrounds

    Dante Cicchetti;Fred A. Rogosch;Melissa Sturge-Apple;Sheree L. Toth

  • Differential Susceptibility in Spillover Between Interparental Conflict and Maternal Parenting Practices: Evidence for OXTR and 5-HTT Genes

    Melissa L. Sturge-Apple;Dante Cicchetti;Patrick T. Davies;Jennifer H. Suor

  • Development and Psychopathology

    Elizabeth P. Hayden;C. Emily Durbin

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick T. Davies
Patrick T. Davies University of Rochester
Dante Cicchetti
Dante Cicchetti University of Minnesota
E. Mark Cummings
E. Mark Cummings University of Notre Dame
Wendi Heinzelman
Wendi Heinzelman University of Rochester
Fred A. Rogosch
Fred A. Rogosch University of Rochester
Ronald D. Rogge
Ronald D. Rogge University of Rochester
Sheree L. Toth
Sheree L. Toth University of Rochester
Judith G. Smetana
Judith G. Smetana University of Rochester
Thomas G. O'Connor
Thomas G. O'Connor University of Rochester
Wilfred R. Pigeon
Wilfred R. Pigeon University of Rochester Medical Center

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